AI/ML Engineer Specialist

Responsibilities

• Provides technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
• Establishes goals and plans that meet project objectives.
• Directs and controls activities for a client, having overall responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are met.
• Interacts with client and senior management.
• Decisions made may have a critical impact on overall project implementation.
• Develop and implement infrastructure for training, validating, and deploying machine learning models.
• Create reusable components and libraries to accelerate AI/ML development and use of Generative AI capabilities.
• Build model serving platforms for efficient inference.
• Design systems for model monitoring and performance tracking.
• Develop tools for model explainability and interpretability.
• Optimize AI/ML algorithms for performance and scalability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or other related discipline, with 12+ years of experience.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience with deep proficiency in Python.
• Proven experience operationalizing Machine Learning models in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with model evaluation, versioning, and CI/CD integration.
• Strong API development skills.
• Familiarity with MLOps frameworks such as AWS SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow, or Airflow.
• Expertise in scalable model serving platforms such as TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, or ONNX runtime.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) and DevOps practices including Terraform or Helm.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or other related discipline, with 14+ years of experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes and deploying containerized ML services.
• Experience utilizing Databricks or similar cloud-native ML tooling.
• Foundational understanding of linear algebra, calculus, and numerical computation to support algorithm optimization.

Clearance Requirements

US Citizenship with a DoD Top Secret clearance.

Physical Requirements

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%. Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.