Computer Scientist

Description

The Intelligence Group at Leidos currently has an opening for a Computer Scientist to work at a Government site in Springfield, VA. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the RECON mission. In this mission we provide Research and Development (R&D) services, technical engagement, and outreach focused on new techniques, algorithms, and tools in support of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT).

Primary Responsibilities:

Work as part of a small development team with a chance to collaborate daily but most of the work is performed independently.

In this position, you and your team will:

• Design and execute experiments for few and low shot approaches for overhead imagery. Avenues of research include self-supervised methods, generative adversarial approaches for domain transfer with synthetic imagery, methods for reducing supervision cost through alternative annotation types and networks.

• Design and execute experiments for general detector performance in overhead imagery. Implement and evaluate new network architectures/approaches from literature as necessary to maintain strong baseline performance.

• Create custom deep neural network components and new performance metrics as needed to support the above. Occasionally writing Python extensions and CUDA kernels in C++ for custom network components, evaluation metrics, etc.

• Maintain containerized execution environments for experiments across compute architectures (amd64, ppc64le) and domains using Docker and Singularity.

• Occasionally work to deploy models created by the team on various partner platforms for evaluation and feedback.

Basic Qualifications:

• TS/SCI security clearance with willingness and ability to obtain a Poly.

• BS degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.

• Experience with Blender.

• Strong Python skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep learning experience (PyTorch preferred).

• Computer vision.

• Research experience.

• Learning new skills such as CUDA/containers as needed.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.