Machine Learning Engineer / AI Model Developer (Mid to Senior)(Top Secret Clearance Required) (Hybrid)
HybridFort Belvoir, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models supporting mission objectives within secure Impact Level 5 environments. Collaborate with Government stakeholders to define AI/ML problems, success metrics, and evaluation criteria, while developing Model Selection Briefs documenting performance and trade studies. Integrate human baseline results into performance analysis and coordinate Human-in-the-Loop experiments when baseline data is missing. Support implementation of production-ready models, optimize datasets for AI workloads, and build backend services for AI-enabled applications. Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and quality assurance activities to deliver innovative solutions via Agile teams. Begin late August/September 2026 with an active Top Secret Security Clearance required.
Required Qualifications
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance
- Machine learning model development experience
- Model evaluation and performance analysis capabilities
- Human baseline results integration skills
- Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) baseline experiment design
- Production-ready machine learning model implementation
- Dataset preparation and optimization for AI/ML workloads
- Backend services and API development
- Cloud-native model development and lifecycle management
- Architecture discussion participation
- Code review experience
- Testing and quality assurance activities
- Agile development team collaboration
- Government stakeholder collaboration
- Model selection methodology establishment
- Secure Impact Level 5 (IL5) environment experience
- Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) handling
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