Join BBN as a Senior Engineer/Researcher in Analytics & Machine Intelligence

Date Posted: 2024-03-13

Country: United States of America

Location: MA105: BBN Headquarters, 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA

Position Role Type: Hybrid

Are You a Passionate Technologist?

Do you have a deep love for technology, display strong leadership qualities, and enjoy tackling novel problems? Do you thrive on creating experiments, prototyping implementations, or designing groundbreaking learning algorithms? If so, BBN is the perfect place for you.

Who We Are

Our Analytics & Machine Intelligence team at BBN is on the lookout for inquisitive and energetic scientists to work at the cutting-edge intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Analysis. As a member of our technical staff, you'll be involved in all stages of software development, from conceptualization and development to implementation, testing, and operational deployment. Your work will directly impact real-world applications, allowing you to derive valuable insights and foster further research.

Our Expertise Includes:

• Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning / Machine Learning / Machine Intelligence
• Modeling Complex Systems
• Natural Language Processing / Media Exploitation
• Speech and Audio Processing
• Decision Support / Information Exploitation
• Computer Vision / Augmented Reality
• Next Generation AI
• Human-Machine Teaming

For over 70 years, BBN scientists and engineers have been at the forefront of research, exploration, development, and prototyping, solving real-world problems through partnerships with top academic and industry professionals. Our Hybrid roles require team members to be onsite for three days per workweek.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with small teams on national security challenges, working alongside leading academics.
• Design and implement software solutions with open-source technologies, validate them against customer needs.
• Participate in collaborative evaluations to assess performance against state-of-the-art benchmarks.
• Support program leads in preparing presentations and descriptive writeups.
• Present your research at peer-reviewed conferences.

What You'll Gain

• Experience in cutting-edge research and prototype development.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and tools.
• Opportunities to propose novel ideas and solutions to complex challenges.
• The flexibility to vary your work environment to suit your lifestyle.

What You Need

Requirements:

• BS with 5+ years, MS with 3+ years, or PhD with 0-3 years of experience.
• Degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields.
• Experience in ML technologies like NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and Complex Systems.
• Proven ability to lead a research project from conceptualization to publication.
• Familiarity with data analytics techniques.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with collaborative coding tools like git and issue tracking.

Additional Skills

• Strong communication skills and ability to address customer needs dynamically.
• Participation in advanced ML research.
• Robust programming skills, from system design to implementation.

We welcome applications from non-U.S. persons as well.

Why BBN?

At BBN, you will be part of an exciting and collaborative environment dedicated to revolutionary research. We foster career growth through on-site training, mentoring, fully-funded tuition programs, and participation in leading research conferences. If you have a growth mindset and thrive under pressure, come join our team!

We offer outstanding benefits, including flexible work schedules, a 5% 401k company match, a 5% Retirement Contribution plan, performance-based incentives, an onsite gym (in Cambridge), paid parental leave, paid time off, and a variety of employee discounts.

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