Senior Research Scientist

Location - REMOTE | Highly Preferred Candidates live near ERI offices locations in Washington DC, Raleigh NC, OR Charlottesville, VA

Clearance Requirement: Must be a US Citizen and Eligible for US Government issued security clearance

Data Driven. People Centered.

Elder Research Inc. (ERI) is an internationally recognized data analytics solution provider with nearly 30 years of expertise in artificial intelligence, data strategy, data science, data engineering, and training. We have operationalized innovative solutions for hundreds of organizations across diverse industries. Our handcrafted AI and machine learning solutions inform decisions, deliver business value, and transform organizations. We exist to provide our clients with analytic consulting that enhances our client’s mission while maintaining a culture that values learning, humility, and work-life balance. We enable organizations to successfully extract value from their data and resources by delivering the most trusted and valuable strategy, training, and analytic solutions in the industry.

At Elder Research you can make a positive impact on the world, collaborate on great teams, grow professionally every week, and maintain an invigorating balance between your personal and professional lives. All who know us recognize our positive company culture as a tremendous asset, and we celebrate how our culture has evolved over the years as each person brings in their skills and personality.

About the Research & Development Division:

R&D at ERI exists to discover, incubate, and accelerate innovative and validated research into viable technology to solve challenging data problems, address real needs, and create/enhance the IP portfolio for ERI. Therefore, the mission of the division is to develop the tools and capabilities for our government and commercial clients to quickly make critical decisions in a world drowning in complex data by providing the right information, to the right person or place, at the right time through innovative, data-driven, evidence centric research and technologies.

The division obtains funded research programs through a variety of contract vehicles, especially the small business grants, like Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) and competitive contracts from top research funding agencies like NASA, NOAA, DOE, DARPA, AFRL, ONR and many others. Elder Research has a large cadre of excellent talent that R&D can and has accessed to drive innovation and the research scientist track is expected to contribute and provide long-term continuity of program execution across portfolios.

Summary of Position:

The Senior Research Scientist have a leadership role in the research group and is accountable for working directly with clients, sponsors, managers, and technical staff to understand business leads, develop technical plans, and deliver impactful solutions. They will supervise Associate Research Scientists and Research Scientists on a project and collaborate with other departments. They are responsible for providing oversight of research tasks to ensure scientists and associates follow all protocols, best practices, and guidelines in achieving scientific discoveries as a technical lead.

Essential Functions:

Client Delivery and Management / Project Support

• Communicates with and leads clients on decisions based on clients’ goals and expectations
• Takes lead to ensure project output, the execution of technical tasks, and the decision-making process on large and complex programs
• Significantly contributes to scientific investigations, modeling, and model validation with some oversight from senior technical members
• Translates business understanding into appropriate technical direction across multiple projects
• Ensures direct projects are doing appropriate reviews; leads design reviews for other projects
• Subject matter expert in more than one domain of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, software engineering, applied mathematics, or an applied scientific domain (e.g., cyber security, biology,...)
• Sets the collaboration environment for their project team(s), and manages the technical collaboration processes
• Leads potential new areas for ERI to deliver value to clients and sponsors

Growth Strategy & Execution

• Improves technical solutions by leveraging knowledge and experience to 'connects the dots' between different projects and by understanding common technical themes and challenges
• Ensures tactical implementation of corporate strategic and technical goals by mapping them to project-specific technologies and initiatives

People Leadership

• Guides and mentors junior analysts, scientists, and engineers

Thought Leadership

• Produces at least two item of collateral per year (blog, white paper, etc)

Other Duties/Responsibilities:

• The breakdown of work for this role is roughly 80% technical work and 20% leadership/non-technical.
• Senior Research Scientists may be invited by the CTO to serve on the Corporate-level Interest Committees.
• May deliver instruction through the ERI Training Business Unit
• Other job duties as assigned

Job Specifications/Requirements:

• Must be a US Citizen and Eligible for US Government issued security clearance
• Advanced degree in technical field (M.S. or Ph.D.) with 4-8 years of related experience or B.S. in technical field with 6-10 years related work experience. Those with M.S. or Ph.D. degrees and related experience are preferred.
• Possesses the technical skills to mentor others on projects and the managerial skills to coordinate research and development
• Subject matter expert in state-of-the-art research in at least two domains listed in essential duties and the ability to innovate new discoveries
• Highly Preferred Candidates live near ERI offices locations in Washington DC, Raleigh NC, OR Charlottesville, VA

About Elder Research, Inc

Elder Research is a fast growing consulting firm specializing in predictive analytics. Being in the data mining business almost 30 years, we pride ourselves in our ability to find creative, cutting edge solutions to real-world problems. We work hard to provide the best value to our clients and allow each person to contribute their ideas and put their skills to use immediately.

Our team members are passionate, curious, life-long learners. We value humility, servant-leadership, teamwork, and integrity. We seek to serve our clients and our teammates to the best of our abilities. In keeping with our entrepreneurial spirit, we want candidates who are self-motivated with an innate curiosity and strong team work.

Elder Research believes in continuous learning and community - each week the entire company attends a “Tech Talk” and each office location provides lunch. Elder Research provides a supportive work environment with established parental, bereavement, and PTO policies. By prioritizing a healthy work-life balance - with reasonable hours, solid pay, low travel, and extremely flexible time off - Elder Research enables and encourages its employees to serve others and enjoy their lives.

Elder Research, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Elder Research is a Government contractor and many of our positions require US Citizenship.