About the position Wyetech is seeking a Research Scientist 2 to investigate, analyze, and review Artificial Intelligence (AI) Analytics for the research, development, and realized solutions to support the exploitation of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) communications and Cybersecurity. The role involves analyzing data and creating research prototypes. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and a position-appropriate security clearance (e.g., Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency-appropriate polygraph) are required.

Responsibilities

• Under supervision, research and develops technically complex AI efforts.
• Performs research, design, development, and implementation activities for technically complex AI efforts under the routine direction of more senior technical staff.
• With minimal supervision, resolves complex AI technical problems by applying advanced principles and Research and Development (R&D) techniques.
• Resolves highly complex AI business and managerial problems.

Requirements

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate poly
• Eleven (11) years' experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or other Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
• Comfortable with the research environment
• Knowledge of and experience with current Machine Learning and Machine Translation technologies
• Understanding of the encoder/decoder transformer architecture
• Experience working with modern text processing pipelines
• Understanding of text encoding vectors
• Understanding of the differences between transformer architectures (like Marian) and Large Language Models.
• Be able to explain the strengths and weaknesses of these two related architectures for Machine Translation
• Ability to evaluate new tools and techniques related to MT
• Ability to propose and implement enhancements to MT tools and processing flows
• Experience working with Docker, defining, building, and testing containers for deployment.
• Experienced in Python, C/C++

Benefits

• Company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching.
• All contributions are fully vested from day one.
• Generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually.
• Option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including: A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA), Vision and Dental, Life and AD&D Benefits, Short and Long-Term Disability, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances, Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services.