AI/ML Research Scientist

Peraton • Annapolis Junction, MD

1d • $135,000 - $216,000

About The Position

Peraton Labs delivers innovative solutions and revolutionary new capabilities to solve the most difficult and complex challenges for government agencies, utilities, and commercial customers. With a distinguished heritage tracing back to Bell Labs, Bellcore, DHPC, and Telcordia, our experts pave the way. Peraton Labs’ AI/ML research pushes the envelope of technologies, extends state-of-the-art to produce advanced solutions that are customized to meet the objectives of research sponsors and customers. Peraton has been developing the advanced generative AI and agentic AI technologies and applications to address the most challenging problems of its customers.
Roles and responsibilities for this position:
The AI/ML Research Scientist will work with project leads and managers to perform research and development of AI/ML technologies, with primary focus on generative AI using Large Language Models (LLMs). Candidates are expected to work with the R&D team to customize and apply developed technologies to address problems of interest to customers. Candidates are expected to possess ability and experience to perform cutting-edge agentic AI research under the supervision of managers.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Must have the ability to obtain / maintain a Secret clearance
• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years, Master's degree and 6+ years, or PhD and 3 years in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field of experience
• Demonstratable AI/ML research experience, academic research publications in peer-reviewed international AI/ML conferences are preferred, unless similar qualifications can be demonstrated
• Development expertise in Python and other programming languages such as C, C++, and Javascript
• Agentic AI development using on of the agent development framework
• Hands-on development experience in AI/ML model building and tuning
• Demonstratable proficiency in working with the state-of-the-art Large Language Models at the API level (During interviews on MS Teams, candidates could be asked to use VSCode or another IDE to execute tasks through programmatic interactions with OpenAI tool/function call API)
• Modern software development practices and toolsets (Linux, Git, CI/CD toolchains, Docker, Postgres)
• AWS knowledge and development skill

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience of using modern AI tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code to be a lot more efficient than writing code and debugging code using the conventional approach.
• Machine learning libraries, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• End-to-end machine learning model and multi-modal generative AI agent development experience.
• Orchestration tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on AI/ML development experience in a cloud environment, such as AWS Bedrock.
• Full stack programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Work with project leads and managers to perform research and development of AI/ML technologies, with primary focus on generative AI using Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Work with the R&D team to customize and apply developed technologies to address problems of interest to customers.
• Perform cutting-edge agentic AI research under the supervision of managers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees