Senior AI/ML Engineer
MANTECH · Arlington, VA · 2 wk ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
- Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
- Designs, builds, and maintains AI/ML lifecycle core services and products.
- Create utilities and ensure seamless function of orchestration capabilities to support the AI/ML environment.
- Create 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.
- Implement automated machine learning pipelines and MLOps practices for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) of models.
- Optimize AI/ML algorithms for performance and scalability.
- Troubleshoot complex issues in AI/ML systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or other related discipline.
- 8+ 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and deploying containerized ML services.
- Experience working with feature stores.
- Experience utilizing Databricks or similar cloud-native ML tooling.
- Experience working with feature stores and distributed data frameworks (e.g., Spark).
- Proficiency in model interpretation tools like SHAP or LIME.
- Foundational understanding of linear algebra, calculus, and numerical computation to support algorithm optimization.