AI/ML Engineer for Mission-Critical Intelligence

Praescient Analytics; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare

401(k) with company match

Travel incentives

PTO with holidays

Job summary

Praescient Analytics is actively seeking an AI/ML Engineer to lead the design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of cutting-edge AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will push forward foundational and frontier models, including LLMs and computer vision, to enhance data-driven missions.

The role requires at least 5 years in AI/ML development with Python or R, strong cloud experience, and a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience using Python or R for AI/ML development.
• Minimum of 5 years of cloud computing experience with cloud-based AI/ML model execution and deployment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing, tuning, validating, benchmarking, and maintaining AI/ML models.
• U.S. citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, evaluate, and deploy production-ready AI/ML models and ensembles (Generative AI, Computer Vision, NLP, classification, prediction).
• Transition experimental prototypes to scalable cloud environments with ETL pipelines and model maintenance.
• Perform model tuning, benchmarking, experimentation, validation, and ethical AI evaluations.
• Preprocess large-scale unstructured data to create training/evaluation datasets.
• Ensure model explainability, interpretability, transparency, and fairness in deployments.
• Collaborate with mission partners and analysts; document findings in publications, briefings, and code repositories.

Skills

Python

R

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Data Science/Applied Math/Engineering/technical field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

Flask

Tableau

GitHub

Job description

Praescient Analytics is actively seeking an AI/ML Engineer to lead the design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of cutting-edge AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will push forward foundational and frontier models, including LLMs and computer vision, to enhance data-driven missions.

The role requires at least 5 years in AI/ML development with Python or R, strong cloud experience, and a TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.