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Staff Geospatial AI/ML Developer - Security Clearance Required

Applied Research Associates (ARA)
Herndon, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/12/2025

At ARA, we strive to hire valuable colleagues with not only the right skills, but also demonstrate our core values of passion, freedom, service and growth. As a Staff Geospatial AI / ML Programmer, you will join a skilled team applying cutting edge research in a complex and evolving data environment, develop code to perform complex modeling to detect and characterize objects (using python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and related software packages) and enhance an evolving analytic tradecraft.  You will integrate data from a variety of sources, formats and disciplines into coherent databases, train foundational models to advance IC assessments fine-tune models, and write briefings and reports for decision makers.

Staff Geospatial AI / ML Developer Security Clearance Requirements :

US citizen with an active TS / SCI clearance with polygraph

Staff Geospatial AI / ML Developer Required Experience :

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in a technical field along with 2-4 years of relevant experience OR 8-10 years of experience in lieu of a degree
  • Programming / Data Science experience
  • AI / ML experience
  • Python and / or R
  • Machine Learning / Computer Vision / Object Detection

Staff Geospatial AI / ML Developer Desired Experience :

  • PyTorch machine learning library experience
  • Keras expertise
  • TensorFlow software library for AI / ML experience
  • Overhead Imagery
  • Who is ARA?

    Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates, Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and engineering company. We have been providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences since 1979. ARA has over 2,279 employee-owners and continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement.

    ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in the company. We are also very proud of our Women’s Initiative Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage professional career development for women to maximize career and professional accomplishments.

    To find out more about what the Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Division has to offer, visit our website at : https : / / www.ara.com / benefits /

    ExperienceRequired

  • 2 - 4 years : Relevant Work Experience
  • EducationPreferred

  • Bachelors or better
  • Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

    The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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