Data Scientist

Hybrid Onsite in Houston, TX: 2 days a week onsite, 3 days WFH

Relocation Assistance: Offered

Must be authorized to work in the US, will not sponsor

This is an exciting opportunity to join a pioneering team at the forefront of industrial and scientific innovation. As a key contributor, you will be instrumental in developing and deploying cutting-edge AI models that unlock profound insights from complex, real-world data. Your work will directly impact critical applications, driving advancements in areas like predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and multi-modal sensor fusion, ultimately shaping the future of intelligent systems.

Partnering with Aquent, you will contribute to a leading organization that is committed to pushing the boundaries of technology and making a tangible difference in various sectors.

Our partner is a global leader dedicated to solving some of the world’s most complex challenges through technological innovation. They are building the next generation of intelligent systems, leveraging vast amounts of sensor, time series, and multi-modal data to create predictive and analytical solutions. This role offers a unique chance to work on large-scale, self-supervised “foundation” models, transforming raw data into actionable intelligence across diverse industrial and scientific applications.

You will be part of a collaborative environment where your expertise in machine learning and data science will drive significant advancements and create lasting impact.

• Foundation Model Development: Architect, train, and deploy large-scale, self-supervised foundation models capable of learning rich representations from time series, sequential sensor data, textual, and vision data.
• Model Fine-Tuning & Application: Adapt and fine-tune models for tasks such as anomaly/event detection, predictive maintenance, forecasting, classification, and multi-modal sensor fusion for industrial and scientific applications.
• Advanced Data Processing: Implement processing, augmentation, and feature engineering techniques for diverse financial, industrial, IoT, medical, and other sensor streams, handling univariate and multivariate time series.
• Sensor Data Expertise: Apply deep expertise in analyzing diverse sensor modalities (e.g., accelerometers, temperature, vibration, audio, images), managing sampling rates, synchronization, and real-world noise/artifact handling.
• Multi-Modality Learning: Design and implement robust deep learning architectures that integrate heterogeneous data types (time series, images, text, audio, structured data) through cross-modal representation learning.
• Cutting-Edge ML Techniques: Drive innovation using self-supervised and semi-supervised learning methods, including masked modeling, contrastive methods, temporal predictive coding, and multimodal alignment and fusion.
• Model Architecture Exploration: Work with model architectures such as sequence models (RNNs, GRU/LSTM, TCN), 1D/2D/3D CNNs, Transformers, graph neural networks, diffusion/generative models, and multi-modal/fusion encoders.
• Scalable Solutions: Implement transfer learning and fine-tuning strategies at scale, including prompt/adapter-based methods, temporal domain adaptation, and few-shot learning for specialized tasks.
• Performance Evaluation: Define and apply evaluation metrics for regression/classification (MSE, F1, AUC), time series similarity (DTW, correlation), event detection/segmentation (IoU, accuracy), and alignment with business/end-user KPIs.
• High-Performance Software Development: Develop custom kernels and high-performance preprocessing solutions using Python (Num Py, Sci Py, Pandas) and C++/CUDA.
• Deep Learning Infrastructure: Leverage and optimize frameworks such as PyTorch (Lightning, Distributed), Tensor Flow/Keras, and JAX/Flax for large-scale training on multi-GPU, multi-node clusters with mixed-precision and ZeRO optimization.
• Robust Data Engineering: Build and maintain robust data pipelines for ingesting, cleaning, segmenting, and aligning large-scale, time-synchronized multi-sensor datasets.
• Mathematical Foundations: Apply strong knowledge in Linear Algebra, Probability &…