Senior​/Principal R&D Artificial Intelligence - Generative SI, Onsite

Job

Location:

Albuquerque, NM

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Sandia National Laboratories is the nation's premier science and engineering lab for national security and technology innovation, with teams of specialists focused on cutting-edge work in a broad array of areas.

• Challenging work with amazing impact that contributes to security, peace, and freedom worldwide
• Extraordinary co-workers
• Some of the best tools, equipment, and research facilities in the world
• Career advancement and enrichment opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements for many positions include 9/80 (work 80 hours every two weeks, with every other Friday off) and 4/10 (work 4 ten-hour days each week) compressed workweeks, part-time work, and telecommuting (a mix of onsite work and working from home)
• Generous vacation, strong medical and other benefits, competitive 401k, learning opportunities, relocation assistance and amenities aimed at creating a solid work/life balance*

World-changing technologies. Life-changing careers. Learn more about Sandia at: http://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..gov

* These benefits vary by job classification.

Are you looking to perform innovative research and development in Generative Super Intelligence (Generative AI) for finding, organizing, reasoning over, and extracting insight from large and complex information sources? Are you excited about research informed by real-world needs? Are you passionate about impacting problems of national importance? If so, consider the possibilities afforded by the Precision Discovery and Retrieval Department at Sandia National Laboratories.

The Precision Discovery and Retrieval department develops advanced methods for extracting and synthesizing insights from large corpora of technical documents. Our work also addresses "where have I seen this before" questions in multimodal contexts. For example, in a cybersecurity setting, subtle correlations among network traffic patterns, user interactions across multiple machines, and data movement may indicate the early stages of a sophisticated attack.

Once such a pattern is recognized, the system could help anticipate likely next actions and support timely countermeasures.

As a member of the department, your job will include:

• Structuring and encoding large document collections for question answering and analysis
• Developing advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools that leverage graphs, ontologies, provenance, and logical reasoning to improve accuracy
• Enabling hypothesis generation, evaluation, and knowledge discovery based on available evidence
• Pursuing self-directed research in a topic area relevant to the department
• Integrating your research with the research of other staff members
• Aligning your research with the needs of Sandia's mission areas
• Addressing complex problems in support of broad-ranging national security areas
• Developing deployable and impactful capabilities that address the needs of Sandia's mission areas
• Collaborating with highly motivated researchers on challenging research questions using state-of-the-art computational resources
• Presenting your work at leading publication and conference venues

Sandia National Laboratories embraces a culture compatible with broad groups of people and perspectives. We seek applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and foster a research community of belonging.

Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite.

$117,500 - $235,700

* Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant…