Senior Computer Scientist (OBI Analytic Efficiency Enablement)Celestar Corporation is seeking a Senior Computer Scientist to support The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under the Object Based Intelligence and Quality Assurance (OBIQUA) task order. The primary place of performance will be at DIA Facilities across the National Capital Region (NCR).This opportunity will support multiple DIA initiatives, including the Machine-Assisted Rapid-Repository System (MARS), Object Management Services (OMS), and Object-Based Intelligence (OBI).Responsibilities include employing mathematics, statics, information science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, network science, probability modeling, data mining, data engineering, data warehousing, data compression, data protection, and/or other scientific techniques to correlate complex, technical findings into graphical, written, visual, and verbal narrative products on trends of existing intelligence data to leverage other IC data sources.Additionally, the role involves developing and utilizing machine learning and data mining algorithms, making best-practice recommendations on managing data within hardware, software, storage, and bandwidth constraints, employing data science techniques to support predictive analysis, social media and crowd-source data analytics, wargaming, and strategy development, and employing exploratory analysis and rapid iteration techniques of large volumes of data to quickly derive intelligence.The Senior Computer Scientist will also prepare products to describe and document findings and activities, review and evaluate OBI documentation submitted by data and AA owners to ensure compliance with tradecraft standards and adherence to best practices in system development and deployment, assess OBI documentation for completeness, accuracy, and thoroughness, and provide detailed feedback to data and AA owners and developers.Collaboration with team members to identify and implement practices for responsible AI development, including but not limited to bias detection, hallucination recognition, prompt fairness testing, adherence to analytic tradecraft standards and security policies, and consultation and guidance to NA owners, developers, and stakeholders on OBI governance and knowledge modeling, including best practices for system development, testing, and deployment, are also part of the role.The Senior Computer Scientist will collaborate with team members to develop and refine semantic data retrieval and reasoning across knowledge graphs through development and optimization of data queries via multiple protocols (e.g. GraphQL, SPARQL, SHACL, SQL), develop and deliver training materials and workshops to educate AA owners, developers, and stakeholders on the OBI process and its application in AI system development, and assist analytic methodologists and AA owners in translating technical documentation into analytic tradecraft compliant language.The role also involves collaborating with team members to develop and refine exploratory efforts leveraging novel technologies (e.g.
large language models, natural language processing, machine-learning) to support and automate entity recognition and extraction, summarization, in accordance with analytic tradecraft standards, to enhance advanced analytic integration for OBI efforts.Required qualifications/skills include a minimum of 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a master's degree, or a minimum of 17 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years with a bachelor's degree, at least 8 years of experience in AI implementation, an advanced degree in computer science, data science, or related field, expertise in AI algorithms, model development, TEVV, and operationalization, the ability to work independently and with minimal oversight, and an active TS/SCI Clearance within the past 5 years.