**Be visionary** Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​ We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins. **Job Description** **About Teledyne FLIR Defense** Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to safeguarding lives with cutting-edge sensing and threat detection technologies. Our arsenal includes advanced surveillance sensors, handheld devices, unmanned vehicles, lasers, and more solutions that increase operational effectiveness for warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams. We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense industry. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on life-saving solutions, we invite you to explore our current opportunities. \#TeledyneFLIRDefenseJobs **Job Summary:** The Teledyne FLIR Data Scientist will be part of a team responsible for in-depth research, discovery and problem-solving related to detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) threats for US Government and Commercial markets. Our products are based on “outside-the-lab” platforms, and include hand-held, wearable, emplaced, and UxV mounted sensors and detectors. Teledyne FLIR’s sensors and detectors generate feature-rich data sets that lead to accurate detection and identification of threats. The Data Scientist is expected to understand the principles of our core technologies and conduct development and testing of algorithms to improve accuracy and reliability of sensor and detector outputs. **Primary Duties & Responsibilities:** + Use data science methods, including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) approaches, to perform data processing (e.g. filtering), feature recognition, alarm threshold determination, pattern matching, statistical trending, scoring of detection quality, and integration of other information into decision making. + Collaborate with other Technologists within Teledyne FLIR on application of AI/ML to system level data fusion, e.g. combining CBRNE sensor outputs with other information in Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) or other situational awareness modalities. + Plan, design, and conduct data acquisition on sensor prototypes to drive algorithm development. + Report results to manager and project team for 1 or more projects on a weekly basis for West Lafayette site. + Compile reports and participate in customer reviews in West Lafayette and in the field. **Job Qualifications:** Background must include: + B.S. degree in Mathematics, Data Science, Physics, or related engineering disciplines required. + Minimum of 2 years of applicable experience in data science, modeling, algorithm development, or AI/ML methods (M.S. with 0 years of experience). + Experience with analytical instrumentation and electronics, CBRNE sensors and detectors desirable. + Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) skills required. + Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. + Ability to effectively communicate and interact with team members and customers. Proven experience required: + Perform basic test design – define the question being asked and develop single-variable experiments to answer. + Act independently to drive experimentation and testing. + Drive toward solutions to project goals. + Compile data in a way it can be shared across the organization on a weekly basis. + Able to troubleshoot and resolve science and project issues. + Communicate with team members to ensure project goals and timelines are met. + Conduct basic instrumentation testing on laboratory analysis equipment . Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce. Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions. Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. ​ You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day **.** Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.