Staff/ Senior Data Scientist, Multimodal AI, AI Practice
Core
Senior Data Scientist leading frontier exploration and applied AI development for government agencies, focusing on multimodal models (vision, video, audio, generative) and translating research into practical solutions.
Role type
Senior IC Data Scientist (Multimodal AI)
Builds
Functional prototypes, proof-of-concept solutions, and evaluation benchmarks for government use cases.
Domain
Public Sector / Government Technology / Multimodal AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Machine learning fundamentals, computer vision, multimodal AI systems, model fine-tuning, cloud architecture, GPU/VRAM management, AI-assisted development tools
Preferred skills
Synthetic data generation, on-premise vs cloud deployment strategy, leading small technical teams, communicating technical results to non-technical stakeholders
Technologies
VLMs, MLLMs, diffusion models, speech/audio models, GCP, AWS, LoRA
Responsibilities
Experiment with and evaluate state-of-the-art multimodal models; Design and run benchmarks for AI models on real-world government tasks; Build functional prototypes and proof-of-concept solutions; Advise on deployment considerations such as hardware and cost; Produce technical write-ups and knowledge artefacts
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership