AI/ML Engineer

• 4+ years of relevant AI/ML engineering, software engineering, or data science experience
• Experience developing and deploying production-grade AI or machine learning systems
• Proficiency with Python and commonly used AI/ML frameworks
• Experience building automated model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring pipelines
• Experience with MLOps platforms, practices, and tools
• Experience deploying models in cloud-based or containerized environments
• Experience developing APIs, microservices, or model-serving capabilities for batch or real-time inference
• Understanding of model evaluation, performance monitoring, drift detection, explainability, and governance
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and orchestration technologies
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and source control
• Experience working within AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Familiarity with data pipelines, feature engineering, distributed data processing, and data versioning
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across applications, infrastructure, data, and machine learning systems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to document and explain technical decisions

• Experience supporting DoW, federal, Advana, or other enterprise AI/ML and data platforms
• Experience with AWS SageMaker or comparable cloud AI/ML platforms
• Experience with MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, Argo Workflows, Ray, Feast, or similar tools
• Experience building AI/ML solutions in secure, regulated, classified, or mission-critical environments
• Familiarity with large language models, generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation, or foundation-model operations
• Experience implementing responsible AI, model-risk-management, or AI-governance practices
• Currently holds, or is willing to obtain within 30 days of employment, an approved certification such as CCSP, CFR, FITSP-M, GSEC, Security+, or SSCP

• Flexible PTO + all Federal holidays off
• Health, dental and vision insurance plans

• 401k with employer match
• Company-sponsored life insurance, short- and long-term disability
• Professional development (training, certifications, conferences)
• Paid cloud developer accounts
• Referral bonuses
• HQ office perks (parking / metro reimbursement, nitro coffee & lunches)
• Annual social events (540 Week, hackathon, charity golf tournament, etc.)
• Access to 540’s Washington Capitals & Nationals tickets

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