AI Product Engineer Reston, VA

Seerist, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus plan

401(k) matching

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Professional Development Stipend

Job summary

A fast-growing AI product company in Reston, VA, seeks a product team member to drive innovations leveraging data science and AI. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in machine learning and generative AI. Responsibilities include collaborating with product teams, rapidly prototyping features, and ensuring alignment with customer needs. The role offers competitive salary, benefits, and a mix of remote and in-office work, with the expectation of 3+ days in the Reston office each week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in ML engineering or AI product development.
• Experience shipping ML/AI features in a product context.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver innovative capabilities powered by AI and machine learning.
• Prototype quickly to turn ideas into working demos.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure solutions meet customer needs.

Skills

Machine learning

Data science

Generative AI

NLP/Text analytics

Amazon Web Services

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS Lambda

SageMaker

ECS

S3

Job description

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Reston, VA, USA

Job Description

We're looking for someone to fill a unique seat on the product team. A builder who sits at the intersection of data science, AI, and product development. The person in this role must operate with high agency: take fuzzy, early‑stage concepts and turn them into working features end to end, collaborating closely with product leadership and domain experts throughout the process. We need someone who can help us scale that way of working across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with our intelligence and product teams to create, build, and deliver novel, innovative capabilities powered by AI and machine learning.
• Apply machine learning, NLP/text analytics, and generative AI (including large language models) to real problems in the threat intelligence domain.
• Prototype rapidly, turning half‑formed ideas into working demos that sharpen the team's thinking.
• Stay current on emerging AI/ML techniques and proactively surface "how could we use this?" opportunities relevant to Seerist's domain.
• Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and solutions teams to ensure what gets built actually solves customer problems.

What We're Looking For

Mindset & Working Style

• Agency. You don't wait for a perfectly scoped ticket. You hear a fuzzy idea, ask the right questions, and start moving.
• Collaborative challenge. You push back thoughtfully when something doesn't make sense, and you welcome the same in return. The process of building is a conversation, not a handoff.
• Intellectual curiosity. You're always learning, reading papers, trying new tools, exploring adjacent domains, and you naturally connect what you're learning to what the team is building.
• Communication. You can explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, write well, and keep people in the loop without being asked.

Technical Skills

• Strong foundation in machine learning and data science — you've trained models, evaluated them rigorously, and put them into production.
• Hands‑on experience with generative AI and large language models (fine‑tuning, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, evaluation).
• Experience with text analytics and NLP, classification, extraction, summarization, entity resolution.
• Comfortable building and deploying on Amazon Web Services (Lambda, SageMaker, ECS, S3, etc.).
• Able to work across the stack, from data pipelines to APIs to front-end interfaces.

Background

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (computer science, data science, mathematics, or similar).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated through academic and professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in a role combining data science, ML engineering, or AI product development.
• Experience shipping ML/AI features in a product context (not just notebooks and research).

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with the threat intelligence, geopolitical risk, or security domain.
• Experience working in a startup or growth‑stage environment where scope is fluid.
• Exposure to event‑driven architectures or real‑time data processing.

What Seerist offers:

• Opportunity to work in a fast‑moving, high‑growth SaaS company
• Competitive salary, bonus plan, 401(k) matching, and long‑term incentives
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, and life plans
• Strong, results‑oriented culture
• Remote and office‑based work (3+ days in Reston office each week)
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Professional Development Stipend

Seerist is an equal opportunity employer. Seerist does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, non‑disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. #SF