Senior AI/ML Scientist for Automation & Mission Support

Bluehawk, LLC; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluehawk, LLC seeks a Senior Data Scientist for Automation and Artificial Intelligence to develop and evaluate AI/ML capabilities that enhance collection prioritization, tasking, and operational decision-making.

You will partner with software engineers and mission stakeholders to translate CI/HUMINT requirements into responsible, explainable analytical solutions while ensuring secure, governance-compliant deployments.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in data science, ML, AI, predictive analytics.
• Proficiency with Python, R or similar languages and data-science frameworks.
• Experience building, validating, and evaluating ML models with complex datasets.
• Ability to explain methods, assumptions, performance, and limitations to mission audiences.
• Strong analytical judgment, documentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Apply AI to identify and prioritize information aligned with national priorities.
• Develop predictive models for collection management and resource optimization.
• Implement ML methods for pattern recognition, anomaly detection, forecasting, and decision support.
• Support automation of tasking processes.
• Collaborate with software engineers on AI/ML prototype development.
• Prepare, cleanse, transform, and analyze data from multiple sources.
• Conduct model validation, performance assessment, and monitoring.
• Brief stakeholders on model performance, risks, and implications.
• Apply responsible AI practices per DoD principles and security requirements.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Python/R

Model development

Explainability

Documentation

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Tools

Python

R

ML frameworks

Job description

Bluehawk, LLC seeks a Senior Data Scientist for Automation and Artificial Intelligence to develop and evaluate AI/ML capabilities that enhance collection prioritization, tasking, and operational decision-making.

You will partner with software engineers and mission stakeholders to translate CI/HUMINT requirements into responsible, explainable analytical solutions while ensuring secure, governance-compliant deployments.