Senior AI Scientist

Location: Austin, TX or Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Job ID: 51363.

About the role

We are seeking a highly innovative and technically exceptional Senior AI Scientist to join our Biometric Innovation Team. This role focuses on the research, development, optimization, and deployment of advanced AI and machine‑learning models that power next‑generation biometric solutions. The ideal candidate will combine expertise in deep learning, computer vision, biometric recognition, and AI model lifecycle management to develop technologies for biometric recognition, matching, presentation‑attack detection (PAD), contactless biometrics, biometric quality assessment, and emerging identity‑verification applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, train, evaluate, and optimize state‑of‑the‑art AI and deep‑learning models for biometric applications.
• Develop image‑processing, video‑analytics, biometric signal‑processing, feature‑extraction, and model‑evaluation pipelines.
• Apply data‑engineering, data‑quality, and data‑governance practices throughout the AI lifecycle.
• Build advanced computer‑vision pipelines utilizing visible‑spectrum, infrared, multispectral, and emerging image modalities.
• Implement identity‑verification and enrollment workflows while creating benchmarking frameworks and performance‑evaluation methodologies.
• Manage end‑to‑end model development lifecycles from research through deployment and optimize models for edge devices, embedded systems, and cloud environments.
• Drive AI explainability and transparency initiatives while implementing MLOps practices, including model monitoring, validation, retraining, and performance tracking.
• Ensure models meet internal standards for fairness, privacy, security, and ethical biometric deployment.
• Investigate novel AI architectures and emerging technologies to improve biometric performance, security, fairness, and scalability.
• Evaluate innovations in generative AI, synthetic biometric data generation, and self‑supervised learning.
• Partner with compliance and product teams to align with emerging regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Collaborate with universities, external partners, and third‑party providers to support innovation and technology advancement while publishing technical findings, patents, and thought leadership where appropriate.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of industry, research, or postdoctoral experience developing and deploying AI models to production environments.
• Strong experience with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Scikit‑learn, AWS, and SageMaker; experience with cloud‑based AI environments.
• Deep technical expertise in CNNs, Transformers, Vision Transformers, attention networks, generative AI models, multimodal/foundation model learning & fine‑tuning, and hybrid techniques.
• Strong expertise in image processing, video analytics, optical flow, temporal modeling, image‑quality analysis, face matching, biometric recognition, PAD, and liveness detection.
• Experience extracting and processing signals from RGB, NIR, IR, thermal, structured‑light, depth, polarization, and multispectral sensing systems (preferred).
• Experience supporting face, fingerprint, iris, palm, and multimodal biometric solutions.
• Knowledge of biometric sensors and image‑quality assessment methodologies (preferred).
• Experience with MLOps, software engineering, data engineering, and responsible AI governance (preferred).
• Knowledge of biometric standards, compliance requirements, and benchmarking methodologies (preferred).

Benefits

• Competitive salary and rewards package.
• Competitive benefits and annual leave offering, supporting work‑life balance.
• A vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive culture.
• Extensive career‑development opportunities and resources to maximize your potential.
• Opportunity to be part of a global organization pioneering hardware, software, and services that enable trusted identity experiences.

Why apply?

• Empowerment: Work as part of a global team in a flexible environment, continuously learning and enhancing your expertise. You don’t need to check every box—if you have most of the skills, we want you to apply.
• Innovation: Embrace challenges, drive change, share insights, and contribute forward‑thinking ideas that shape future outcomes.
• Integrity: Be results‑oriented, reliable, and straightforward, and be treated with the same respect.

Equal Opportunity

HID Global is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce that reflects the global communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Immigration Sponsorship

Applicants must be currently and legally authorized to reside and work in the hiring country. HID Global will not offer immigration sponsorship or assume sponsorship of an employment visa for this position. International relocation or remote work arrangements outside of the hiring country will not be considered.