Senior Data Scientist

AURA TECHNOLOGIES LLC; North Carolina; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fortune 500-level Health Care Coverage

Unlimited Leave Program after 60 days

10 Paid Holidays & Paid Winter Break

401(k) Safe Harbor Contributions

Employee Discount Program

Job summary

AURA Technologies LLC is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (USA-Remote) to design, build, and ship machine learning systems across defense and commercial portfolios. You will work with a team of data scientists and engineers to frame problems, evaluate feasibility, and deliver high-performance models in production.

Minimum qualifications include 5+ years in data science or ML, experience across multiple data domains, and strong Python with PyTorch or TensorFlow. U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data science or ML engineering experience.
• Experience delivering end-to-end ML projects from data to production.
• Strong Python and scientific computing stack required.
• U.S. Citizenship is required for DoD-related work.

Responsibilities

• Own data science projects end to end from framing to deployment and monitoring.
• Build and maintain production ML pipelines with data collection and testing.
• Translate research objectives into well-scoped problems and experiments.
• Mentor junior data scientists and communicate results to stakeholders.

Skills

Python

MLOps

ML pipelines

Data science lifecycle

Communication

Education

MS or PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

NumPy

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AURA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (AURA) is an advanced research and development (R&D) company creating game-changing innovations for the US Department of Defense and the private sector in cutting-edge technology. If you are a smart, capable, and talented individual who possesses high integrity, thrives in a fast-paced environment, wants to chart your own course based on your capabilities, and is willing to be accountable for failures and successes, then continue reading because you may be the ideal candidate to join our exponentially growing R&D business.

Bigger challenges. Bolder ideas. Global impact. At AURA, we’re on a mission to deliver solutions with the capacity to change the world. We’re a North Carolina company behind some of the world’s most unique technology in government, hi-tech, AI, commercial and healthcare services. Our technology is bridging the digital divide to improve lives for our customers around the globe. By providing powerful new ways for people to connect with one another, we support our clients to gain greater access to data, decision making, medical research, commerce, and much more. Our team is empowering customers worldwide.

The Opportunity

AURA Technologies is seeking a Senior Data Scientist (USA-Remote) to design, build, and ship machine learning systems for various AI/ML applications across our portfolio (defense and commercial sector). This is a hands-on role for someone who has experience with the full data science lifecycle, having taken models from raw data to production (and has ideally sustained them after deployment). You will work alongside a team of data scientists and engineers to frame problems, evaluate what is feasible, and deliver systems that are performant under real-world conditions.

We're looking for breadth as well as depth. The problems we work on cross data types, so we want someone who has done meaningful work in more than one data domain. They should be comfortable applying techniques from different toolkits as a given problem demands.

Due to Department of Defense contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens to be considered for this position.

What you'll do

• Own data science projects from end to end: problem framing, data acquisition, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Build and improve production ML pipelines in partnership with engineering, including data collection, feature development, automated testing, and deployment.
• Translate broad research objectives into well-scoped, defined problems and devise experiments to test and develop potential solutions to them.
• Monitor deployed models for drift and degradation and drive the retraining or redesign work that follows.
• Mentor junior data scientists through code review, design discussion, and pairing.
• Communicate methods and results to technical and non-technical audiences, including customers and leadership.

Minimum qualifications

• Due to Department of Defense contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. Citizens to be considered for this position.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or equivalent applied research role.
• Substantive experience working with at least two distinct data domains — e.g., computer vision, time-series, geospatial, NLP, tabular/structured, graph, signal processing, or audio. We're looking for real project depth in each, not coursework exposure.
• Experience working on a team that owned a full ML pipeline: data collection and labeling, feature and model development, testing, deployment, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Strong programming skills in Python and its scientific stack (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, and at least one deep learning framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Familiarity with MLOps tooling: experiment tracking, model registries, feature stores, CI/CD for ML, containerization and orchestration.
• Comfort with software engineering practices: version control, code review, testing, and reproducible environments.

• Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in a quantitative field such as computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, engineering, or a related discipline - Equivalent professional experience may be substituted for the degree.

Nice to have

• Experience maintaining deployed models (continuous/periodic evaluation, retraining, etc.)

• Experience with either of the following domains: CBM+, digital twins
• Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Publications, open-source contributions, or competition results that show technical depth
• Edge or embedded AI/ML applications
• Experience mentoring or leading a small team

Benefits

• Fortune 500-level Health Care Coverage
• Unlimited Leave Program after 60 days
• 10 Paid Holidays & Paid Winter Break
• 401(k) Safe Harbor Contributions
• Employee Discount Program

AURA Technologies, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are a Drug Free Workplace and thus, all job offers are contingent on successful criminal background check and drug screen. As a US Federal Contractor, AURA uses the Department of Homeland Security e-Verify system to determine eligibility to legally work in the United States.