Aptima's mission is to improve and optimize performance in mission-critical, technology-intensive environments by applying expertise in how humans think, learn, and perform to solve today's challenges, ensuring synergy, enhancing productivity, and accelerating learning, training, and readiness.
Requirements
- Moderate proficiency in software development practices relevant to ML/AI workflows, including object-oriented programming (e.g., Python, Java, C-Sharp), modular code design, and transitioning from exploratory notebooks to maintainable, production-ready packages.
- Foundational understanding of machine learning techniques (e.g., deep learning, feature extraction, and embedding application) and experience building computational models from large datasets.
- Experience with natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), agentic workflows, or computer vision (CV) is a plus.
- Ability to competently apply engineering technical skills, principles, and heuristics to plans and products that are of high quality, responsive to customer needs, contractually compliant, and delivered in a timely manner.
- Possesses general understanding of multiple technical domains relevant to Aptima, with a primary focus on a specialty that is integrated with other domains at Aptima.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of artificial intelligence (AI) and software systems that classify and measure human states using multimodal sensor approaches
- Contribute to the design, development and application of data mining, statistical analysis, machine learning, computational modeling and digital signal processing methods
- Collaborate with software engineers, within an agile development environment, to implement, test, and apply mathematical algorithms from research
- Successfully design and implement the scientific and technical aspects of projects and proposals.
- Lead in the execution of technical tasks under projects and proposals, resulting in work that is timely and of high quality
- Contribute to the production of Aptima technical reports, proposals, presentations, and published papers
- Support more senior staff through the application of technical knowledge by contributing to proposals, participating in capabilities briefs, preparing software or meeting materials, integrating/installing software, meeting with customers, etc.
Other
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance
- Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Demonstrated technical and leadership ability to take on this level of requirements
- Continue education in own professional domain (conferences, reading). Take initiative to do background reading and/or other forms of professional development related to project needs and technical areas
- Present work at professional conferences and/or in professional publications
