Role overview

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Your day-to-day will include:

  • Working with customers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define clear requirements that solve the customers’ problems and leverage the capabilities of our AI operations platform.
  • Translating requirements into a technical approach, design, scoping estimate, and execution plan.
  • Leading execution teams to achieve on-time completion of project deliverables mapped to customer business value while making key individual contributions throughout the process.
  • Designing, orchestrating, and automating complex data pipelines and algorithms within modern architectures (cloud, event-driven, microservices, etc.).
  • Guiding the development of machine learning models and custom analytics applied to image, video, text, geospatial, time series, and structured data.
  • Raising insights, opportunities, challenges, and feedback in order to improve group-level practice, capture reusable functionality, expand company opportunities, and accelerate time to value.
  • Conducting mission-critical fieldwork and interfacing with customers and other stakeholders at their work sites.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Advanced degree in data science, machine learning, computer science, or a related discipline and 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Broad proficiency in programming languages common to machine learning (excellence in Python is essential, as is knowledge of libraries like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn) and systems programming (e.g., Go, Rust, C++, Java, Scala, etc.)
  • Proficiency in the design and delivery of algorithms, data structures, and production analytics and in the use of design patterns in cloud environments
  • Demonstrated experience defining, scoping, planning, and delivering complex technical solutions in production environments
  • Proficiency with modern software engineering tools and processes (Agile, version control, issue tracking, CI/CD, debugging, etc.)
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, manage, and mentor small cross-functional teams that work across office, remote, and customer sites
  • Ability to communicate complex topics with professionalism, competence, and clarity to internal and external stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) via documents, presentations, and conversations
  • Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Secret (or above) US security clearance
  • Due to the nature of this role, candidates must have US citizenship

The Wish List

  • Experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and horizontally scaled architectures
  • Knowledge of messaging systems such as NATS, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
  • Experience building AI agents and workflows
  • Experience with complex and varied data types, such as multi-spectral imagery, full motion video, acoustic or sonar signals, synthetic aperture radar, or hardware telemetry
  • Experience delivering technology solutions in secure government environments
  • Active Secret (or above) US security clearance

The Benefits

  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Voluntary life, long-term disability, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
  • HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
  • 401(k) plan
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
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