Senior Decision Scientist

BigBear.ai

Washington, USonsitePosted Jun 12, 2026
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Skills

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About the role

Overview:

BigBear.ai is seeking a Senior Decision Scientist to support one of our Intelligence clients' Object Based Intelligence mission. This position will be onsite in Washington DC or Reston, VA with potential travel for onsite customer training.

BigBear.ai helps people make sense of their data using our cloud-based platform and big data processing algorithms. Each day, we crunch massive volumes of structured and unstructured data into usable and actionable information for our customers. This is an ideal opportunity to be part of one of the fastest growing AI/ML companies in the industry.

At BigBear.ai we're in this business together. We own it, we make it thrive, and we enjoy the challenges of our work. We know that our employees play the largest role in our continual success. That is why we foster an environment of growth and development, with an emphasis on opportunity, recognition, and work-life balance. We give the same high level of commitment to our employees that we give to our clients. If BigBear.ai sounds like the place where you want to be, we'd enjoy speaking with you.

What you will do:

Understand and improve the judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations.

Apply principles of psychology to business, analytic and other decision-making processes to improve and / or empirically evaluate

those processes.

Activities may include assisting in policy planning; workflow procedures testing and evaluation, analytic workflow redesign, training and development.

May work with management to prescribe workflow modifications that

improve worker productivity and analytic judgment.

What you need to have:

Bachelor’s degree

Active Top Secret/SCI clearance

12 years of experience as a decision scientist, analytic methodologist, business analyst, or data scientist.

What we'd like you to have:

Master’s degree in a directly related field

6+ years of experience supporting the Department of War, or Intelligence Community as a decision scientist, analytic methodologist, business analyst, or data scientist.

About BigBear.ai:

BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on Bigbear.ai’s predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit https://bigbear.ai/ and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.

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