Experienced AI Credibility Researcher - Onsite

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About Sandia: 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. Some of the main reasons we love our jobs: 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://www.sandia.gov These benefits vary by job classification. What Your Job Will Be Like: We are seeking visionary thought leaders to help shape the future of AI Credibility at Sandia and across the NNSA laboratories. Building on Sandia's long history of developing methods, frameworks, and tools for credibility in computational simulation, we will advance the state of the art in AI Credibility to enable the use of cutting-edge AI tools in our most critical national security missions. This group will address the technical foundations of AI Credibility, including evaluation, uncertainty quantification, verification and validation, robustness, interpretability, human-AI teaming, and lifecycle assurance, while advancing research frontiers in trustworthy foundation models, hybrid physics-AI systems, model robustness, and evidence-based assurance for high-consequence applications. On any given day, you may be called on to: Lead and contribute to interdisciplinary technical teams conducting creative research in elements of AI modeling, development, and credibility. Help define research directions, technical strategy, and long-term vision for credible AI in national security and high-consequence scientific settings. Develop advanced research ideas that address challenging Sandia mission problems and craft those into original research proposals. Publish technical results in peer-reviewed venues, contribute to internal technical reports, and present findings to research, program, and leadership audiences. Serve as a strategic leader to develop funding opportunities, identify research directions, and grow a new team in the field of AI Credibility. Apply AI tools integrated with enabling credibility processes to advance Sandia's national security missions. Mentor junior researchers and contribute to the growth of a vibrant research community in trusted and credible AI. Focus areas may include, but are not limited to: Foundations of AI Credibility, including evaluation, assurance, and trustworthiness for AI-enabled systems Methods in verification, validation, uncertainty quantification, and robustness for machine learning and generative AI models AI model performance under distribution shift, sparse data, rare events, and other high-consequence operating conditions Interpretable, explainable, and transparent AI to support scientific understanding and defensible use of model outputs Human-AI teaming, including trust calibration, uncertainty communication, and effective oversight in expert decision environments Approaches to data quality, provenance, reproducibility, and traceability in AI workflows Credibility of foundation and generative models, including grounding, factuality, hallucination mitigation, and evaluation of emergent behaviors Physics-informed AI, hybrid modeling, and constrained learning approaches for mission-relevant applications Methods for analyzing, representing, and understanding complex and large datasets, both enabling and enabled by AI Benchmarks and frameworks for AI test and evaluation, assurance cases, and evidence-based model assessment You will be part of a multidisciplinary, research- and mission-focused team developing foundational research directions in AI Credibility to support Sandia's national security and nuclear deterrence mission areas. Occasional travel may be required. If you are passionate about building a team to enable the credible use of AI in high-consequence applications, we want to hear from you. Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant will be required to work onsite. Relocation will be provided for those that qualify. Salary Range: $138,600 - $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. Qualifications We Require: A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (

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