[Remote] AI Data Scientist
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services. As an AI Data Scientist, you will turn data into measurable outcomes and play a crucial role in developing AI-powered analytics and customer engagement solutions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical and strategic backbone of our AI‑powered customer engagement and analytics ecosystem
- Design, build, and maintain advanced RAG and LLM‑driven capabilities that power our virtual agents and knowledge systems, while also delivering polished, user‑centric dashboards and analytics products that drive decisions across the business
- Architect scalable data pipelines, develop intuitive front‑end experiences using Next.js, and integrate complex authentication and AI workflows with minimal oversight
- Translate intricate technical and analytical insights into clear, compelling presentations for leadership, collaborate closely with business partners to understand needs, and deliver end‑to‑end solutions that are both innovative and production‑ready
- Combine AI systems expertise with engineering fundamentals, excellent storytelling skills, and a passion for building high‑impact, future‑ready tools
Skills
- Bachelor of Science
- 2+ years of related experience
- 5+ years of related experience at Senior level
- Experience in Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including embeddings, vector databases, chunking strategies, and retrieval tuning
- Applied experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, function calling, and building or enhancing conversational AI interfaces or custom AI agents
- Ability to design, build, and maintain advanced analytics dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar) with strong grounding in BI best practices, data modeling, and data quality
- Experience developing scalable front-end applications using Next.js and modern JavaScript frameworks, with strong UI/UX sensibilities for data products
- Ability to architect and maintain data pipelines, ingestion workflows, and analytics platforms, including parsing complex content (HTML, PDFs, embedded images) for search or RAG use
- Proven ability to build AI‑powered analytics features, automated insights, and conversational interfaces for business intelligence applications
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving AI/LLM metrics, telemetry, and performance reporting frameworks
- Ability to translate complex technical or analytical work into clear stories, compelling presentations, and demos for senior leadership and cross‑functional teams
- Experienced at partnering with business units to understand needs and deliver high‑impact, user‑centric data and AI products
- Capable of owning full life‑cycle development—from ideation and prototyping through deployment, iteration, and long‑term maintenance—with minimal oversight
- Backend or full‑stack engineering foundation with experience building APIs, microservices, cloud‑based deployments, and observability/debugging workflows
- Familiarity with vector stores (Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, Azure Cognitive Search), LLM model behavior, and RAG workflow integration
- Demonstrated autonomy, innovative thinking, and ability to deliver high‑quality, production‑ready systems quickly
- Familiarity integrating authentication systems (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML) and connecting to third‑party identity providers such as ID.me or Clear
- Must be able to obtain and maintain up to a Top Secret clearance
- US Citizenship Required
Benefits
- AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
- Medical plan options (some with Health Savings Accounts)
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
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