Head of Applied AI Science & Geospatial Intelligence

Vantor Holdings, Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 266,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor Holdings, Inc. is seeking an Applied AI Science Leader in Herndon, VA to drive research, development, and production AI initiatives across geospatial and multimodal AI.

You will mentor scientists, guide model strategy, and ensure rigorous evaluation and deployment practices to deliver real-world decision intelligence. Responsibilities include roadmap execution, cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, sales, and leadership, and building scalable AI systems on modern cloud

Qualifications

• Must be a United States citizen and eligible to obtain a security clearance.
• 10+ years of experience in machine learning, applied AI, data science, AI engineering, decision science, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams of scientists, engineers, or data scientists.
• Proven track record deploying production AI/ML systems with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing Applied AI Scientists team across geospatial AI, multimodal learning, vision-language models, LLMs, and production ML.
• Define and execute a roadmap translating customer and mission needs into priorities, milestones, and deployable capabilities.
• Oversee end-to-end ML pipelines, deployment ownership, monitoring, and lifecycle management with engineering partners.
• Drive the adoption of agentic AI as a force multiplier across the organization.
• Establish standards for safe, reliable, auditable AI workflows, experimentation, and evaluation.
• Shape near-zero-latency intelligence and decision systems delivering timely signals to stakeholders.

Skills

Multimodal AI

Vision-language models

LLMs

Reasoning systems

Agentic AI

Geospatial AI

Remote sensing

Predictive modeling

Causal inference

Experimentation frameworks

Large-scale ML systems

AI infrastructure

Production ML

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science / ML / AI / Applied Math / Statistics

Tools

Cloud ML platforms

Containerized deployment

Model serving & monitoring

Experiment tracking

Job description

Vantor Holdings, Inc. is seeking an Applied AI Science Leader in Herndon, VA to drive research, development, and production AI initiatives across geospatial and multimodal AI.

You will mentor scientists, guide model strategy, and ensure rigorous evaluation and deployment practices to deliver real-world decision intelligence. Responsibilities include roadmap execution, cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, sales, and leadership, and building scalable AI systems on modern cloud