Lead Data Scientist & AI Research Architect (PI)

Fortescue Metals Group; Denver (CO); Sur place; USD 108 000 - 228 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CAC I International Inc. in Denver, CO seeks a staff-level Data Scientist/Principal Investigator to shape ambitious AI/ML research, lead teams through technical uncertainty, and translate prototypes into secure, scalable capabilities with measurable mission impact.

You will drive end-to-end AI system design, collaborate with customers and engineers, mentor staff, and apply modern MLOps practices to production-ready solutions for defense and national security customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field and 7+ years of professional experience.

Responsabilités

• Serve as Principal Investigator and technical lead for a portfolio of applied AI research efforts; define research questions, technical approaches, milestones, evaluation plans, risks, and transition criteria.
• Identify and shape new research opportunities with technical leaders, customers, business development teams, and program organizations; contribute to white papers, proposals, technical volumes, estimates, and funding briefings.
• Remain hands-on: design experiments, build prototypes, review code and models, troubleshoot difficult technical issues, and establish credible technical baselines.
• Architect end-to-end AI systems that integrate models, data pipelines, APIs, search or retrieval services, orchestration, user applications, and deployment infrastructure.
• Lead cross-functional teams of data scientists, software engineers, platform engineers, domain experts, and user-experience practitioners; delegate effectively while maintaining accountability for technical quality and outcomes.
• Develop other technical staff through mentoring, design and code reviews, modeling guidance, constructive feedback, and clear engineering expectations.
• Drive the transition of successful prototypes into secure, maintainable, production-grade capabilities by applying modern software engineering, MLOps, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and artifact-management practices.
• Establish rigorous and reproducible evaluation methods, including appropriate baselines, quantitative and qualitative metrics, error analysis, operational constraints, and responsible-AI considerations.
• Communicate complex technical work clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences through demonstrations, reports, roadmaps, decision briefings, and customer engagements.
• Track relevant advances in commercial and open-source AI, assess their applicability and risk, and turn useful discoveries into reusable architectures, components, and practices for teams across the company.

Connaissances

Python

ML frameworks

Leadership

Research leadership

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/Data Science/Math/Engineering

Outils

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

Description du poste

CAC I International Inc. in Denver, CO seeks a staff-level Data Scientist/Principal Investigator to shape ambitious AI/ML research, lead teams through technical uncertainty, and translate prototypes into secure, scalable capabilities with measurable mission impact.

You will drive end-to-end AI system design, collaborate with customers and engineers, mentor staff, and apply modern MLOps practices to production-ready solutions for defense and national security customers.