You are accountable for the quality of the work, the health of the engagement, the performance of the team, and the strength of the client relationship.
All candidates will be required to work onsite in Bethesda, MD and require a TS//SCI with a CI PolyHow we expect you to show upThese behaviors are foundational to how we recruit, select, develop, and evaluate every practitioner at Toffler. Experience matters; how you use it matters more.
Team Before Self - Put team success ahead of individual recognition. Share knowledge, relationships, credit, and opportunities freely. Ask for help, offer it freely, and make the people around you better. Make choices that strengthen the team.
Quiet Professional - Lead through sound judgment, preparation, and performance. Earn credibility through the quality, not title, résumé, or personal visibility.
Humility - Remain curious and teachable regardless of experience. Seek and apply feedback, recognize blind spots and missteps, and adapt with openness and self-awareness.
Reliability - Consistently earn the trust of clients and teammates. Do what you say you will do. Communicate early, surface risks before they become problems, and make sure clients and teammates are never surprised.
Stewardship - Take responsibility for leaving the client, team, and firm stronger than you found them. Build relationships, capacity, and knowledge that last beyond the engagement.
What you'll bring- An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED TS/SCI Federal or DoD security clearance with a polygraph
- Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems, software)
- 8 or more years of work experience in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems, software)
- Experiences should include, but not be limited to:
- Systems engineering and integration experience in complex, data-intensive environments
- Knowledge of AI/ML (computer vision, NLP, predictive analytics, LLMs)
- Demonstrated experience with NLP methodologies such as text classification, named entity recognition, topic modeling, information extraction, or transformer-based architectures
- Experience developing or evaluating NLP pipelines, including text preprocessing, tokenization strategies, model training, fine-tuning, and optimization for mission environments
- Understanding of data architectures and pipelines for large-scale analytics/intelligence production
- Familiarity with AI governance, data quality, bias mitigation, and mission assurance in operational NLP/LLM deployments
- Experience creating program plans, work breakdown structures, and milestone schedules
What would be nice to have- Master's degree or PhD in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (electrical, computer, systems, software) with FOUR (4) or more years of work experience
- Experience in the Intelligence Community (IC), including requirements, CONOPS, and transition
- Experience managing a multi-disciplinary R&D or T&E team
- Experience as a Project Manager or Deputy Project Manager
- Experience with NLP development tools or frameworks such as Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, or similar libraries
- Ability to proactively manage multiple, concurrent tasks
- Excellent writing, slide development, and editing skills, including the ability to develop succinct, comprehensive, and understandable documents using complex data from multiple sources for technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and time-management skills; detail oriented
