AI/ML Engineer
$86,800–$198,000 year
Remote · Arlington, Virginia, United States or O'Fallon, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
AI/ML Engineer responsible for designing, creating, and implementing production-grade AI/ML solutions for Defense and Intelligence sectors. Role emphasizes building scalable AI systems, integrating ML across multiple modalities, and embedding ML operations (MLOps) and deployment into diverse mission environments. Requires experience with LLMs, cloud environments (AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), API/databases, and evaluating AI performance with observation layers and dashboards (Grafana/Langfuse/LangSmith/Phoenix). Security clearance is required. Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree preferred. Compensation range advertised: $86,800–$198,000 annually.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience as a ML engineer and building production-grade ML solutions, including work involving LLMs, agents, or complex automation frameworks
- 3+ years of experience working within data science or data research in a professional or academic environment, and training or deploying models across multiple modalities of data
- 3+ years of experience working in cloud environments, including AWS and Azure
- 2+ years of experience deploying and integrating production-grade ML models using tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Deep Learning (DL), and Reinforcement Learning (RL), and with tools and AI agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or llamaindex
- Experience in connecting Agents to APIs, Cloud platforms, or databases
- Experience evaluating LLM performance and building observation layers for stakeholders, including Grafana, Langfuse, LangSmith, or Phoenix
- Experience evaluating architectural tradeoffs and designing robust service-based software applications for scalable use
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree
- Nice If You Have: Master’s degree
- Experience with programming, including ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, llama.cpp, and vLLM
- Experience with client engagements, client-facing project work, and business development
- Experience with project work in deep learning, computer vision, NLP, or signal processing
- Experience deploying and managing data brokering solutions, including Kafka, Red Panda, Confluent, and other related services
- Ability to adapt in a rapidly changing environment
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Possession of excellent interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
- Secret clearance
- Master's degree
- Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
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