Data Scientist 4

Serving the People Who Serve the People

Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.

Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.

Want to know more? See more of what we do here.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement generative AI and Agentic solutions using LLMs, diffusion models, and other cutting-edge techniques for text, image, and multimodal generation.
• Develop custom fine-tuning and prompt engineering strategies for foundation models to meet domain-specific needs.
• Explore innovative applications of generative AI in areas such as conversational agents, automated content creation, and citizen engagement platforms.
• Build scalable pipelines for model training, evaluation, and deployment on cloud and edge environments.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed generative AI capabilities into enterprise platforms.
• Conduct research and experimentation with emerging architectures (e.g., transformers, diffusion models, VAEs, GANs) to stay ahead of industry trends.
• Establish best practices for responsible AI, including bias mitigation, explainability, and ethical use of generative models.
• Communicate complex AI concepts to executives and non-technical stakeholders in a clear, actionable manner.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to frameworks, tools, and reusable components for generative AI development.
• Experience with vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and knowledge graphs.

Qualifications – Must Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of experience in data science, with at least 2+ years focused on generative AI or advanced deep learning.
• Proven expertise in LLMs, diffusion models, GANs, VAEs, and other generative architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML/DL frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers).
• Experience with fine-tuning foundation models, prompt engineering, and model optimization.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and MLOps for large-scale AI deployments.
• Strong understanding of data preparation for generative models, including text, image, and multimodal datasets.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with ability to influence AI strategy.

Qualifications – Good to Have

• Experience with multimodal AI (text + image + audio).
• Familiarity with RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback) and alignment techniques.
• Knowledge of responsible AI principles, including fairness and interpretability.
• Contributions to open-source generative AI projects or published research.
• Prior work in government or public sector AI applications.

Don’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above? At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams. We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles. If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply. We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit!

Security and Privacy Requirements

• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.

The Team

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture

• At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be
  a part of our journey.
• A few culture highlights include – Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and
  sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.
• We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee
  population
  
  

The Impact

• We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.