Senior AI/ML Engineer

Our ideal candidate is an experienced professional who has researched and developed AI/ML algorithms and deployed these algorithms to operational environments. This candidate will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in AI/ML to solve a broad set of problems across multiple domains. This candidate will be joining a team of talented researchers and software developers with the opportunity to lead and mentor junior engineers. Additionally, they will work with our technical and business strategy leadership team to help shape our growing AI/ML portfolio.

As an AI/ML Engineer, your responsibilities include:

• Leading a small team consisting of developers and researchers to implement AI/ML algorithms to solve a broad set of challenges
• Analyzing large multi-domain datasets such as images, text, and/or graph data to identify statistically relevant features to build models that provide analysts with actionable data
• Using cloud services to train and deploy ML models
• Reviewing relevant publications to understand cutting edge concepts, break down key ideas to government customers, and apply to defense and commercial applications
• Writing technical documentation supporting code, program capabilities and user-guides

Required skills:

• Experience leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers and software developers and working with a program manager to define project scope and schedule to ensure we meet project milestones as defined by our customers
• Experience selecting a technical AI/ML approach and then iterating/pivoting as needed to enhance performance
• Experience with Python and any of the following Python machine learning frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch Lightning, and/or scikit-learn / scikit-image
• Effective communicator with the ability to write and present technical reports both internally to the engineering team and externally to customers
• Experience with one or more of the following:
•    Applying unsupervised and/or supervised machine learning techniques 
•    Applying and/or developing algorithms based in statistical analysis
•    Analyzing large datasets and building models to perform inference
• 5-9+ years of experience, preferably in software development or as a data scientist with 3+ years of developing/training AI/ML models
• Must hold a TS/SCI clearance with SSBI to support the government

Desired skills (bonus points):

• MS or PhD in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or relevant fields
• Experience with any of the following AI/ML domains:
•    Reinforcement learning and familiarity with OpenAI Gym, RLlib, and Stable Baselines
•    Applying clustering algorithms and/or deep neural networks to real life problems
•    Computer vision models such as YOLO, EfficientNet/EfficientDet, ResNet, U-Net, EDSR
•    Modern transformer-based NLP models such as BERT, XLNet, RoBERTa, Longformer, etc.
•    Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoencoders
• Experience with Linux
• Familiarity with using AWS cloud computing resources such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc
• Experience with any of the following additional languages: C++, Java, and/or C#
• Experience implementing algorithms on the GPU in Python or C++ using CUDA and other CUDA libraries
• Experience with implementing tracking and fusion, and pattern-of-life algorithms
• Experience in application deployment, virtualization, and containerization
• Experience shaping and writing proposals

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.