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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # PhD Graduate - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Research Scientist - **Company:** The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Starter - **Salary:** $105,000.0 - $245,000.0 - **Contract:** Contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Python (Programming Language), Pytorch, HuggingFace - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8afcd0d9-fa11-464d-b504-f686f7224b55 ## About the Role * Have a PhD or equivalent degree with dissertation work in fundamental AI research. * Have a strong record of peer-reviewed publications in reputable journals and/or conferences. * Are proficient in Python programming with experience using PyTorch and/or Jax, including Hugging Face libraries (transformers, diffusers, datasets, tokenizers, etc.). * Are able to acquire an Interim Secret level security clearance by your start date and can ultimately acquire a final Top Secret level clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship. You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you have research experience in any of these areas: * Measuring and increasing alignment between humans and AI agents * Novel techniques for training and/or fine-tuning foundation models * Models or agents for robotic control and problem-solving * Adversarial and/or natural robustness of computer vision and autonomy * Neural rendering techniques for 3D scene reconstruction ## Description Are you an early-career researcher hoping to invent the future of artificial intelligence (AI)? Do you have a burning desire for your research to serve a bigger purpose? Are you concerned about pressing challenges facing our nation's security and prosperity? If these questions describe you, you may be the kind of person the Artificial Intelligence Group at JHU/APL is looking for. We are a team within the Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD) that strives to close the gap between frontier models and our sponsors' expectations for an AI-dominated future. Our research programs are targeting foundational advances with cross-mission impact, such as: * Improving alignment of AI agents used in human-machine teaming and wargaming * Training multimodal foundation models on language and sensor data * Intelligent robots that use agentic AI to perform complex tasks in a self-directed way * Assessing, mitigating, and exploiting vulnerabilities of frontier models * Mission-driven test and evaluation (T&E) of novel research We are seeking new PhD graduates that, in the short-term, can make important contributions to our current research, and in the long-term can grow into a thought leadership role for the Laboratory. 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