Senior Data Scientist: Undersea Acoustic ML & Fourier

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, Seattle (WA, WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Vacation and paid holidays

Job summary

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist III with deep learning and signal processing expertise to advance undersea acoustic data analysis. You will lead development, training, and evaluation of DL models, collaborating with ML engineers and domain scientists on national-security-related sensing problems.

Based in Richland, WA or Seattle, WA, this onsite role requires leading research projects, mentoring colleagues, and delivering prototypes and evaluated

Qualifications

• BS/BA plus 5+ years data science exp OR MS/MA plus 3+ years OR PhD with 1+ year exp
• Experience developing, training, and evaluating DL models for acoustic, sonar, audio, radar, seismic or related sensor data
• Experience implementing, training, and evaluating DL models in Python with PyTorch

Responsibilities

• Lead development, training, and evaluation of DL methods for undersea acoustic detection, classification, localization, and related problems using Fourier analysis or signal processing
• Lead research projects or major technical efforts, coordinate contributors, and plan work, resources, and milestones
• Evaluate methods against baselines using data, examining detection/classification performance, false alarms, robustness, uncertainty, and computational demands
• Build and validate research prototypes and evaluate agentic AI systems with software/ML engineers
• Collaborate with mission partners to translate user needs into research questions and communicate findings
• Develop research ideas and proposals to support your research
• Mentor colleagues, help recruit and onboard researchers, share findings
• Follow QA, safety, and security requirements

Skills

Deep learning

Python (PyTorch)

Acoustic data analysis

Team leadership

Education

BS/BA in STEM

MS/MA in STEM

PhD

Tools

PyTorch

Python

Signal processing tools

Job description

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a Senior Data Scientist III with deep learning and signal processing expertise to advance undersea acoustic data analysis. You will lead development, training, and evaluation of DL models, collaborating with ML engineers and domain scientists on national-security-related sensing problems.

Based in Richland, WA or Seattle, WA, this onsite role requires leading research projects, mentoring colleagues, and delivering prototypes and evaluated