Lead Data Scientist - Simulation / Optimization

Govini

Pittsburgh, United States
On-site
Agentic ai culture
Ai platforms development
Complex defense acquisition challenges
Provide visionary technical leadership to a team of data scientists and AI engineers, driving the end-to-end development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence solutions for National Security clientele

Job Summary

  • Provide visionary technical leadership to a team of data scientists and AI engineers, driving the end-to-end development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence solutions for National Security clientele.
  • Apply deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and a keen understanding of complex Defense Acquisition challenges, working with proprietary and commercial datasets to derive actionable knowledge.
  • Lead the end-to-end execution of large-scale AI projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and timely delivery, while mentoring and guiding team members.

Matching Summary

Provide visionary technical leadership to a team of data scientists and AI engineers, driving the end-to-end development and deployment of cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence solutions for National Security clientele.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Agentic AI culture
  • AI platforms development
  • complex Defense Acquisition challenges
  • Discrete Event Simulation
  • Monte Carlo methods
  • stochastic optimization
  • AI/ML/DS project ownership

Nice-to-have

  • out-of-the-box thinker
  • obsessed with quality
  • rapid prototyping/deployment
  • constructive dialogue
  • AI innovations champion

Key Requirements

  • 7 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • Discrete Event Simulation (DES) experience
  • Stochastic optimization application
  • Bayesian optimization, causal discovery, and causal modeling experience
  • Coding AI experience (e.g., Claude Code)
  • Deep technical knowledge of AI solution internals

Work Rights

Must have US citizenship

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