AI Research Scientist

Responsibilities

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.

As an AI Research Scientist, you will work with senior research scientists and managers to perform research and development of AI technologies such as large language models and generative AI. Candidates are also expected to work with R&D teams to customize and apply developed technologies to problems of interest to customers.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Masters or Ph.D. in CS or related fields, with one or more years of experience working with large language models (LLMs), transformer models, and/or generative AI (GenAI).
• High level of experience and ability to program in Python and/or C.
• Hands-on development experience in prompt engineering and tool calling of OpenAI GPT models.
• Experience with modern software development practices and toolsets (Git, CI/CD toolchains).

Additional desired skills:

• Familiarity with Machine Learning libraries, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.
• Comfortable working within a Linux environment and familiar with Bash scripting.
• Experience with Agentic AI.
• Experience with other major Large Language Models, such as those from Claude, DeepSeek, Llama, and other open source LLMs and large reasoning models such as OpenAI o1, o3-mini, deepseek-r1, etc.
• End-to-end machine learning model development experience.
• Experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Cloud services experience (AWS, Azure).

Minimum Clearance Requirements:

• No clearance is required at hiring; US Citizenship with ability to obtain a clearance is required.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.