Staff Gen AI Research Scientist
Core
Design, fine-tune, and deploy next-generation generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems for air-dominance platforms and collaborative autonomous behaviors.
Role type
Staff Gen AI Research Scientist (applied research & hands-on coding)
Builds
Air-dominance platforms (Fury, Barracuda) and Lattice for Mission Autonomy software stack
Domain
Defense / Autonomous Systems / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, PyTorch/JAX, LLM training & fine-tuning, multimodal model development, SOTA alignment techniques (SFT, RLHF, DPO), model optimization (quantization, distillation, pruning), agentic architecture design, data collection strategy
Preferred skills
Edge accelerator deployment (NVIDIA Jetson, custom TPUs/ASICs), multimodal architectures (VLM, sensor fusion), diffusion models, end-to-end product lifecycle management, first-principles thinking
Technologies
Axolotl, Hugging Face, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, LangChain, LlamaIndex
Responsibilities
Develop and pre-train in-house LLMs and multimodal foundation models; Architect and optimize models for tactical edge compute; Design multi-agent coordination frameworks; Collaborate with perception and motion planning teams; Define and execute data collection strategies across physical and virtual environments; Build early-stage prototypes and scale to production
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & hands-on IC
