Senior Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Johns Hopkins APL · Laurel, MD · Artificial Intelligence

senior machine learning AI Research Scientist ic 15+ yrs Phd's · Posted Jan 26, 2026

About this role

Johns Hopkins APL is hiring a senior-level AI Research Scientist in the machine learning function based in Laurel, MD. The posting calls out experience with LLMs, AI Agents, Security and roughly 15+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a Ph.D. or equivalent.

Role
AI Research Scientist
Function
machine learning
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Location
Laurel, MD
Experience
15+ years
Education
Ph.D. preferred
Department
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Jan 26, 2026
AI Summary
Senior AI Research Scientist advancing AI research in national defense applications including foundation models, agent alignment, multimodal training, and robotic perception. Requires PhD in AI, 15+ years peer-reviewed research experience, and ability to obtain Top Secret security clearance. Role involves independent research direction, proposal development, and cross-team collaboration.
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Job description

from Johns Hopkins APL careers
Description

Are you an experienced AI researcher looking to apply your hard-earned expertise to problems that truly matter?


Are you motivated by challenges facing our nation’s security and prosperity?


Does the opportunity to work on groundbreaking research with mission intent excite you?

 

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join Artificial Intelligence Group at JHU/APL!

 

Our team works at the intersection of AI research and national defense, solving problems that few other institutions are trusted to work on. Some examples of our current challenges include:

  • Optimizing the alignment of AI agents for human-machine teaming
  • Improving the reasoning capabilities of agents
  • Training and evaluating multimodal foundation models on unique mission datasets
  • Agents for self-directed robotic perception, navigation, and problem-solving
  • Assessing, mitigating, and exploiting vulnerabilities in frontier models
  • Test and evaluation (T&E) of emerging AI research

A Senior AI Researcher in our group is a trusted technical contributor, advancing research in your specialty area while also collaborating with teammates, program managers, and leadership. Our top researchers all play an active role in shaping research directions, engaging with sponsors, and contributing substantively to proposal development and execution. Staff at this level are also relied upon to bring expert judgment to novel problems and to translate ideas into executable, funded work aligned with mission and sponsor priorities.

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