Principal Research Scientist

At Boston Fusion, we recognize diversity is the catalyst for limitless creativity.

As a Principal Research Scientist for Boston Fusion, you will have the opportunity to utilize your knowledge of scientific research and software engineering best practices to contribute and drive research efforts in development of systems core to the success of future Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) activities.

This role will develop new approaches, investigate existing algorithms and models, design and perform scientific analyses, and develop solutions to complex research problems for military and intelligence community customers.

Every day, we go above and beyond to solve complex problems, making a difference for our nation. We do this by bringing together smart, curious people with diverse life experiences who collaborate creatively to achieve innovative technological breakthroughs. We are proudly building a work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work.

Due to the nature of our project work, we can only consider candidates with current US Citizenship.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Lead proposal / business capture teams to shape, write and review proposals
• Interface with customers, including travel, to shape marketing efforts and effectively communicate technical results
• Investigate fundamental topics in a scientific field such as signal processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, physics and / or math
• Lead teams of two or more Scientists, Engineers, and Programmers, including identifying, assigning, and completing research and development tasks appropriate to each member of the team
• Provide strategic leadership role in working with a project / proposal team to identify the research approach, hypotheses to be tested, and program milestones to achieve all program objectives
• Facilitate collaboration in large, complex teams to ensure resulting technology (algorithms, software, frameworks) achieves all research objectives
• Select, improve, or design computational models
• Identify relevant research approaches, hypotheses to be tested, and program milestones to achieve all program objectives with project and / or proposal teams
• Provide scientific, technical and software design support to projects and proposals
• Design statistically valid experiments to test and validate resulting computational models
• Provide leadership and guidance in the analysis of results of the experiments using sound scientific principles
• Design experiments to test and validate computational models
• Establish and maintain a professional rapport with all project stakeholders (internal and external)
• Additional project and proposal duties as assigned

Additional Responsibilities :

Required Education and Experience :

Required Technical Qualifications :

Demonstrates strong competency in every category and a mastery of at least one category

Preferred Technical Qualifications :

Preferred Domain Knowledge :

Work Authorization / Security Clearance Requirements :

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