Senior AI Engineer, Human–AI Systems Lead

Aptima Inc.; Mishawum (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptima is seeking a Senior AI Engineer - Human-AI Systems to lead design and technical execution of AI-enabled systems that integrate human cognition and team dynamics with machine intelligence for DoW applications.

The role requires deep expertise in human-AI interaction, behavioral science, and applied AI system design, with responsibilities spanning technical leadership, requirement translation, experiments, and evaluation.

Qualifications

• MS/PhD in cognitive psychology, human factors/HCI, AI/CS or related field.
• Strong quantitative modeling background and experimental design experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R for data analysis and modeling.
• Experience leading technical tasks on government-funded programs.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of human-AI teaming concepts and workflows.
• Study trust, explainability, cognitive workload, and teams science.
• Act as technical lead on AI/human-AI system development.
• Translate mission needs into system requirements and architectures.
• Design and conduct human-subject experiments and studies.
• Develop analytic pipelines and performance metrics from real data.
• Communicate results to technical teams and stakeholders.
• Contribute to proposals and customer deliverables.
• Mentor junior staff and promote best practices.

Skills

Human-AI interaction

Statistical analysis

Team leadership

Technical communication

Experiment design

Education

MS or PhD in cognitive psychology or related field

Experience in AI/CS with human-AI focus

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Aptima is seeking a Senior AI Engineer - Human-AI Systems to lead design and technical execution of AI-enabled systems that integrate human cognition and team dynamics with machine intelligence for DoW applications.

The role requires deep expertise in human-AI interaction, behavioral science, and applied AI system design, with responsibilities spanning technical leadership, requirement translation, experiments, and evaluation.