Principal AI Data Scientist

About the role

We are seeking an experienced AI Data Scientist to join Deltek’s growing AI Center of Excellence team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise-grade Generative AI solutions
• Build AI applications leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) & SLMs
• Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
• Implement conversational AI, AI copilots, and intelligent assistants
• Develop multimodal AI solutions involving text, image, audio, and document understanding
• Design and develop AI Agents capable of complex reasoning and task execution
• Build multi-agent frameworks and agent orchestration solutions
• Implement autonomous workflows integrating enterprise systems and business processes
• Implement tool-calling, function-calling, and agent memory architectures
• Establish evaluation frameworks for AI solutions
• Design benchmarks for quality, accuracy, groundedness, hallucination detection, and safety
• Evaluate and compare foundation models for business use cases
• Improve AI system performance through prompt tuning, fine-tuning, and model optimization
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy AI solutions into production environments
• Build scalable AI pipelines and inference architectures
• Support integration of AI services with enterprise applications and workflows
• Partner with platform teams to optimize AI costs, latency, scalability, and performance
• Implement AI observability, monitoring, and governance controls
• Ensure Responsible AI principles are embedded throughout the AI lifecycle
• Evaluate solutions for bias, fairness, security, and compliance
• Support AI governance policies, risk assessments, and model validation processes
• Develop safeguards and guardrails for enterprise AI applications
• Stay current with advancements in Generative AI, foundation models, open-source AI, and agentic systems
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and recommend adoption opportunities

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience developing AI/ML solutions
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Agentic AI, Generative AI and Large Language Models
• Strong experience building AI copilots, AI Assistants, RAG solutions, or AI Agents
• Proficiency in Python and modern AI frameworks
• Experience integrating AI solutions into enterprise environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills