National Security AI Research Engineer - Clearance Eligible

PREDICTION; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

PREDICTION is hiring an AI Research Engineer in New York to turn cutting-edge ideas in multimodal AI, vision, and large-scale ML into real-world systems for national security. You’ll design experiments, train and evaluate models, build prototypes, and work with engineers and security experts to advance our technical direction.

You will operate across research, experimentation, and production engineering and own significant portions of projects, and you will be part of a national security mission

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Robotics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Experience building and training neural networks, not just using third-party APIs.
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills with hands-on research experience.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and build advanced AI and machine learning systems
• Develop models that reason across video, images, text, structured data, and other signals
• Work on computer vision, multimodal models, vision-language models, temporal reasoning, and behavioral understanding
• Read and implement ideas from the latest AI research and evaluate whether they can solve real operational problems
• Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize machine learning models
• Design experiments and rigorous evaluation frameworks for complex real-world datasets
• Build prototypes quickly and turn successful research into production systems
• Work closely with engineers, AI researchers, and national security experts
• Help define PREDICTION’s technical direction as we develop new AI capabilities

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Machine learning

Deep learning

Computer vision

Multimodal AI

Research

Experimentation

Production engineering

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Transformers

LLMs

Job description

PREDICTION is hiring an AI Research Engineer in New York to turn cutting-edge ideas in multimodal AI, vision, and large-scale ML into real-world systems for national security. You’ll design experiments, train and evaluate models, build prototypes, and work with engineers and security experts to advance our technical direction.

You will operate across research, experimentation, and production engineering and own significant portions of projects, and you will be part of a national security mission