AI/ML Engineer - NLP, AWS & PyTorch (TS/SCI)

Akina, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 170,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

24 days PTO accrued annually

11 federal holidays

401k 100% vested on start date, 10% of

Healthcare fully covered for employees

Dependent coverage 50%

Job summary

Akina, Inc. in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, seeks an AI/ML Engineer 1 focused on NLP and language models to design, train, and deploy with AWS/SageMaker. TS/SCI clearance is required.

You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to deliver scalable AI solutions and integrate models into production environments. The role emphasizes model evaluation, performance monitoring, and building robust ML pipelines using modern tools.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Perform statistical analysis
• Run machine learning algorithms
• Use results to improve models
• Train and retrain systems when needed
• Run standard test and evaluation protocols
• Provide system integration oversight

Skills

Language models

Marian NLP

Multi-lingual model development

Computational linguistics

Open-source model libraries

DLC & GPU technologies

Optimization & tuning

Java, C, C++

AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch,

Hugging Face

AWS tools (SageMaker, Lambda, EC2, S3)

Data structures, algorithms, system设计

NLP experience

Model evaluation & monitoring

MLFlow or Git versioning

Kubernetes

Education

B.S. degree in advanced math or CS

3 years ML experience substitute for degree

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Kubernetes

Job description

Akina, Inc. in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, seeks an AI/ML Engineer 1 focused on NLP and language models to design, train, and deploy with AWS/SageMaker. TS/SCI clearance is required.

You will collaborate with data scientists and software engineers to deliver scalable AI solutions and integrate models into production environments. The role emphasizes model evaluation, performance monitoring, and building robust ML pipelines using modern tools.