GDIT is a global technology and professional services company providing consulting, technology, and mission services to major agencies across the U.S. government, defense, and intelligence community. With 30,000 experts, GDIT leverages technology to create immediate value and deliver innovative solutions. The company operates in 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber, and application development. GDIT strives to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing deep expertise and advanced technology with its clients.

About the Position

Introduction

GDIT is seeking an AI Data Scientist to turn data into measurable outcomes for customers. This role involves powering innovation, driving mission impact, and advancing your career by contributing to an AI-powered customer engagement and analytics ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical and strategic backbone of the AI-powered customer engagement and analytics ecosystem.
Design, build, and maintain advanced RAG and LLM-driven capabilities for virtual agents and knowledge systems.
Deliver polished, user-centric dashboards and analytics products that drive business decisions.
Architect scalable data pipelines.
Develop intuitive front-end experiences using Next.js.
Integrate complex authentication and AI workflows with minimal oversight.
Translate intricate technical and analytical insights into clear, compelling presentations for leadership.
Collaborate closely with business partners to understand needs.
Deliver end-to-end solutions that are both innovative and production-ready.
Combine AI systems expertise with engineering fundamentals, storytelling skills, and a passion for building high-impact tools.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor of Science
Experience:
- 2+ years of related experience
- 5+ years of related experience at Senior level
Required Skills:
- Experience in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) design, optimization, and troubleshooting, including embeddings, vector databases, chunking strategies, and retrieval tuning.
- Applied experience with LLM integration, prompt engineering, function calling, and building or enhancing conversational AI interfaces or custom AI agents.
- Ability to design, build, and maintain advanced analytics dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar) with strong grounding in BI best practices, data modeling, and data quality.
- Experience developing scalable front-end applications using Next.js and modern JavaScript frameworks, with strong UI/UX sensibilities for data products.
- Ability to architect and maintain data pipelines, ingestion workflows, and analytics platforms, including parsing complex content (HTML, PDFs, embedded images) for search or RAG use.
- Proven ability to build AI-powered analytics features, automated insights, and conversational interfaces for business intelligence applications.
- Experience designing, implementing, and evolving AI/LLM metrics, telemetry, and performance reporting frameworks.
- Ability to translate complex technical or analytical work into clear stories, compelling presentations, and demos for senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Experienced at partnering with business units to understand needs and deliver high-impact, user-centric data and AI products.
- Capable of owning full life-cycle development—from ideation and prototyping through deployment, iteration, and long-term maintenance—with minimal oversight.
- Backend or full-stack engineering foundation with experience building APIs, microservices, cloud-based deployments, and observability/debugging workflows.
- Familiarity with vector stores (Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, Azure Cognitive Search), LLM model behavior, and RAG workflow integration.
- Demonstrated autonomy, innovative thinking, and ability to deliver high-quality, production-ready systems quickly.
- Familiarity integrating authentication systems (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML) and connecting to third-party identity providers such as ID.me or Clear.
Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain and maintain up to a Top Secret clearance
US Citizenship Required

Benefits

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities.
Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off.
Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home.
Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace.

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes:

Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
Dental plan options.
Vision plan.
401(k) plan offering pre and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits and a company match.
Various paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
Short and long-term disability benefits.
Life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance.
Personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.