Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

Research Scientist

• Develop research questions, hypotheses, evaluation criteria, and feasible work plans with a senior research mentor
• Propose original investigations and contribute to an individual development plan
• Design, code, test, debug, document, and demonstrate prototype models, simulation components, data integrations, and analytical applications
• Take bounded concepts through implementation and iterative evaluation
• Develop and evaluate generative agent-based simulations and human-supervised agentic workflows
• Design experiments and sensitivity studies assessing prompts, model selection, stochastic variation, data quality, and assumptions
• Compare results with baselines or reference cases and document limitations
• Use Python and supporting development tools for data preparation, APIs, simulation execution, and analysis
• Use approved AWS or comparable environments within access controls and compute budgets
• Translate research into mission threads, conceptual models, requirements, interfaces, and evaluation plans
• Contribute scenarios, evaluation logic, data collection, and prototype demonstrations to analytical wargames or tabletop studies
• Participate in approved, unclassified discussions with government stakeholders and brief technical findings and limitations
• Maintain version-controlled code, tests, experiment records, and technical documentation
• Prepare research briefs, presentations, manuscripts, or publication-quality material where release is authorized
• Manage agreed tasks and milestones, report progress, identify risks, and collaborate in technical reviews
• Use approved coding assistants responsibly and independently verify generated code
• Work under an assigned senior research mentor on mission engineering, analytical wargaming, and decision-support prototyping

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Agentic Modeling, Simulation & Wargaming