AI Engineer I — TS/SCI w/poly clearance

Cybertrend-Engineering-LLC; Corridor North (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework up to 16 hours/week

Health benefits

SEP-IRA retirement plan

Educational assistance

Training assistance

Paid time off + holidays

Job summary

CyberTrend Engineering LLC seeks an AI/ML Engineer to design, train, evaluate, and productize AI/ML models addressing defense and government programs. You will lead model development across data pipelines, training, deployment, and monitoring, ensuring scalable solutions with strong cross‑functional collaboration.

The ideal candidate has hands‑on NLP, full‑stack development awareness, and proficiency in Python, Java, C/C++, plus experience with AWS SageMaker and ML frameworks.

Qualifications

• Two years experience in applied machine learning in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• A B.S. degree in advanced math (e.g., calculus, linear algebra or Bayesian statistics), computer science or related STEM discipline is required.
• Three (3) years of additional machine learning experience on projects with similar machine learning processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, and fine‑tune machine learning models, particularly language models.
• Collaborate across the model development lifecycle and with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑impact solutions.
• Deploy models and manage evaluation, monitoring, and optimization to ensure performance.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS SageMaker) to deploy and scale models.
• Serve as primary POC for AI-related matters and lead geographically diverse teams when needed.

Skills

Statistical analysis

ML algorithms

Model improvement

Train and retrain

ML libraries

Testing protocols

System integration oversight

Education

Bachelor's degree in math/CS

Tools

Marian

Multilingual models

Open-Source ML libraries

Deep Learning Containers

GPU technologies

AWS SageMaker

AWS Lambda

AWS EC2

AWS S3

Job description

CyberTrend’s leadership has 40 years of experience in the industry, and the company continues to serve as a technology leader on many defense projects and programs. Formed in 2010, CyberTrend has long-standing partnerships and clients, including partners like AWS and IBM, government agencies, the intelligence community, and defense contractors. We provide talented and exceptionally qualified IT, architectural, system, and software engineering personnel.

Requires TS/SCI with Poly Clearance

The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Engineer designs, creates, tests, and productizes AI/ML algorithms to solve business challenges. The AI/ML models they create should be capable of learning and making predictions as defined by the business logic developed to meet customer requirements. The AI/ML Engineer should be proficient in all aspects of model architecture, data pipeline interaction, and metrics application, interpretation, and presentation. The AI/ML Engineer needs familiarity with foundational concepts of application development, infrastructure management, data engineering, and data governance. Through an understanding of training, retraining, deploying, scheduling, monitoring, and improving models through iterative user and system feedback, the AI/ML Engineer designs and creates scalable solutions for optimal performance. The AI/ML Engineer may be responsible for leading geographically diverse teams and will often serve as a primary POC for AI-related matters, so must have exceptional analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. Expert knowledge of multiple programming languages, e.g. Python, Java, C, R, a plus.

Two (2) years experience in applied machine learning in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. A B.S. degree in advanced math (e.g., calculus, linear algebra or Bayesian statistics), computer science or related STEM discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Three (3) years of additional machine learning experience on projects with similar machine learning processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Qualifications

• Perform statistical analysis
• Run machine learning algorithms
• Use results to improve models
• Train and retrain systems when needed
• Experience in working with various ML libraries and packages
• Run standard test and evaluation protocols
• Provide system integration oversight

Requirements

Seeking an AIML1 Engineer, responsible for building, training, fine-tuning, and evaluating advanced language models. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with state-of-the‑art machine learning techniques, specifically for natural language processing (NLP), and will also have a strong understanding of full‑stack development. This person will work across the model development lifecycle and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑impact solutions.
Key Responsibilities:

• Knowledge and experience of Language models is required
• Specific experience with Marian and multi‑lingual model development
• Knowledge of Computation Linguistics is a plus
• Experience with Open‑Source model libraries, Deep Learning Containers (DLC), GPU technologies and optimization / tuning
• Strong Java, C, C++ programming experience
• Willingness to support occasional on‑call duties is a plus
• Build, train, and fine‑tune machine learning models, particularly language models
• Apply best practices in model training, tuning, and optimization.
• Design and implement solutions for model performance improvement.

Evaluation & Testing

• Conduct rigorous model evaluation, including performance analysis and benchmarking.
• Perform error analysis, debugging, and model diagnostics to ensure quality and reliability.
• Work with cloud‑based AI platforms (especially AWS Sagemaker) to deploy and scale models.
• Integrate machine learning models into production environments, ensuring seamless integration with other systems.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the full stack for AI model‑based applications (front‑end and back‑end).
• Collaborate with software engineers to build scalable and efficient deployment pipelines.
• Work closely with data scientists, product teams, and engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Document workflows, model design processes, and technical specifications.
• Strong proficiency in AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face
• Expertise in model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS tools like SageMaker, Lambda, EC2, and S3.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design.

Experience & Background

• Extensive experience in machine learning model development, including natural language processing (NLP).
• Experience with model evaluation, optimization, and performance monitoring.
• Proven experience in software engineering with strong coding skills.
• Experience working in a government or defense‑related environment is highly preferred.

Additional Skills

• Experience with model versioning and management using tools such as MLFlow or Git.
• Familiarity with containerization tools (i.e. Kubernetes).
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Nice to Have

• Experience with secure data handling and compliance requirements
• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLMs)

This position requires in‑scope poly, within 7 years.

Telework (up to 16 hours per week) may be available for this position based on mission needs/available tasking at the discretion of leadership, after the individual has become fully acclimated to the duties and responsibilities of the position and has completed the necessary telework training.

Generous and competitive paid time off, scaled based on time in service, plus eleven paid annual holidays.

CyberTrend pays 100% of the cost for the following benefits for its full‑time employees: including medical (base plan), dental, vision, disability, life, EAP, and more.

CyberTrend contributes 10% of your monthly gross salary to a SEP-IRA account. This retirement plan is non‑contributory for the employee, has no vesting period, and is 100% owned and managed by the employee.

Educational assistance up to $5,250 annually for work‑related activities upon prior approval

Training assistance up to $3,000 annually for work‑related activities upon prior approval

CyberTrend provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.