AI/ML Engineer – Top Secret/SCI with Poly

Praescient Analytics; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company-paid healthcare

401(k) with company match

Travel & performance incentives

3 weeks PTO + holidays

$5K training allowance

Job summary

Praescient Analytics is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to lead design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will advance foundational and frontier models (LLMs, CV) to enhance data-driven missions.

Role requires translating research into production-ready systems and robust cloud ETL pipelines. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years in Python or R for AI/ML, 5+ years in cloud deployments, and active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a technical field.
• 5+ years of Python or R for AI/ML development.
• 5+ years of cloud computing experience for AI/ML deployment.
• 5+ years of AI/ML model development, tuning, validation, benchmarking, and maintenance.
• U.S. citizen with active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, evaluate, and deploy production-ready AI/ML models and ensembles (Gen AI, CV, NLP, classifiers).
• Transition prototypes to scalable cloud environments with ETL pipelines and model maintenance.
• Perform model tuning, benchmarking, experimentation, validation, and ethical AI evaluations.
• Preprocess and clean large-scale unstructured data to create training/evaluation datasets.
• Ensure model explainability, interpretability, transparency, and fairness.

Skills

Python

R

Cloud computing

Model development

Data preprocessing

Explainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

Flask

Tableau

GitHub

Job description

Praescient Analytics is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to lead design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will advance foundational and frontier models (LLMs, CV) to enhance data-driven missions.

Role requires translating research into production-ready systems and robust cloud ETL pipelines. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years in Python or R for AI/ML, 5+ years in cloud deployments, and active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.