Machine Learning Engineer
Elder Research, Inc
Charlottesville, United States of America
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
$ 77KJob location
Charlottesville, United States of America
Tech stack
JavaScript
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
CompTIA Security+
Computer Security
Linux
Web Servers
Python
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Named Entity Recognition
Open Source Technology
Standard Sql
Search Technologies
Web Applications
Multi-Agent Systems
Prompt Engineering
Generative AI
FastAPI
Build Management
Containerization
Virtual Agents
Streamlit Framework
Docker
Web Api
Job description
- Build and deploy AI agents to both automate and optimize labor intensive workflows, as well as empowering the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilities.
- Support program with R&D and customer-facing goals, to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into impact on contract.
- Create software to support AI agent communication, connecting models and agents to external services via API calls, testing and debugging tasks, deploying into target environments, setting up monitoring, and ensuring reliable execution of agentic AI systems.
- Utilize a combination of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary commercial models.
- Develop novel approaches to securing agentic workflows and to evaluating the results for accuracy, performance, and impact.
- Ensure AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines, transparency, and fairness principles.
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic search.
Requirements
- Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.
- Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Familiarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux)
- Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI)
- Experience with developing agenticAI workflows/systems
- Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic
- UVicorn (webserver)
- Streamlit (web apps)
- Security Plus
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Multi-agent orchestration
- Familiarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)
- AWS Cloud experience
- Experience with Graph Analysis
Clearance Requirements:
- Must have an active TS/SCI + Poly
Physical Requirements:
- The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, and or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations.