Senior AI/ML Scientist — Fintech & LLMs (Onsite DC)

BBI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

BBI is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in ML, AI, LLMs, and foundation models to build enterprise fintech AI applications at the Washington Navy Yard. You will design, fine-tune, and deploy models for risk scoring, document intelligence, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics.

The role requires a MS or PhD, 8+ years of hands-on experience, strong Python and PyTorch/TF, and cloud ML skills.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in a relevant field
• 8+ years hands-on ML experience
• Strong Python and PyTorch/TensorFlow knowledge
• Experience with LLMs and foundation models
• Cloud ML platforms and MLOps tooling

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize Generative AI, LLMs, and foundation models for fintech applications
• Fine-tune open-source and proprietary models for NLP, document intelligence, risk scoring, and predictive analytics
• Lead experiments to evaluate model accuracy, scalability, and fairness; deploy on cloud pipelines (Azure, AWS)
• Work with large-scale datasets across payments and financial ecosystems; monitor drift; retrain models

Job description

BBI is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in ML, AI, LLMs, and foundation models to build enterprise fintech AI applications at the Washington Navy Yard. You will design, fine-tune, and deploy models for risk scoring, document intelligence, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics.

The role requires a MS or PhD, 8+ years of hands-on experience, strong Python and PyTorch/TF, and cloud ML skills.