Vantor

Applied AI Scientist

Vantor

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: HerndonColoradoVirginiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $124,000 - $206,000 per year

About the role

  • Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable insights and predictive intelligence
  • Build and operate end-to-end AI/ML pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production inference
  • Productionize reasoning models, vision-language models (VLMs), and multimodal AI systems that combine imagery, geospatial signals, and structured data
  • Architect enterprise-grade training and experimentation frameworks, including automated pipelines, experiment tracking, benchmarking, and reproducible evaluation
  • Create synthetic datasets and test harnesses to validate model performance, robustness, and edge-case behavior in real-world operational environments
  • Work closely with domain experts, software engineers, product managers, and research partners to translate complex Earth intelligence challenges into deployable AI solutions
  • Optimize models and inference systems for scalability, latency, cost efficiency, and reliability on modern cloud infrastructure
  • Implement and maintain production inference systems, including monitoring, model versioning, retraining workflows, and performance tracking
  • Stay current with the latest advances in foundation models, generative AI, multimodal learning, and reasoning systems, and translate research breakthroughs into practical systems
  • Maintain high engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, experimentation discipline, and collaborative problem solving
  • Help shape the next generation of Earth AI capabilities through collaboration with leading research organizations and technology partners.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
  • Demonstrated experience designing and delivering end-to-end ML pipelines, including data processing, training automation, evaluation frameworks, and scalable inference
  • Hands-on experience developing and deploying deep learning models, particularly in one or more of the following areas: Vision-language models (VLMs), Multimodal learning, Reasoning models, Large language models (LLMs), Computer vision or geospatial AI
  • Strong programming skills in Python, with experience using modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
  • Experience building reproducible experimentation pipelines, including model evaluation, dataset versioning, and experiment tracking
  • Experience deploying models into production environments using modern cloud infrastructure and containerized systems
  • Familiarity with distributed training, large-scale data processing, and model optimization techniques
  • Ability to collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams to bring advanced AI capabilities into real-world applications.
Benefits
  • robust 401(k) with company match
  • mental health resources
  • student loan repayment assistance
  • adoption reimbursement
  • pet insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI-driven applicationsmachine learning systemsend-to-end ML pipelinesdeep learning modelsVision-language modelsMultimodal learningReasoning modelsLarge language modelsPythondata processing
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem solvingcommunicationexperimentation disciplineengineering standards
Certifications
MS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer ScienceMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceApplied Mathematics