Junior AI Engineer — ML & MLOps in Defense Tech

nou Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Medical insurance

401(k)

ESOP

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Technical Solutions division and help design ML solutions for defense and cyber domains. You will build, train, and evaluate ML models, work with data scientists, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role requires a STEM degree, hands-on DL experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow/Jax, and the ability to obtain an active Secret clearance. Collaboration and strong written/verbal skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field.
• Academic, internship, or professional experience with AI development (RL, XAI, LLM).
• 1-3 years of hands‑on experience with deep learning models (supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning) using PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Jax.
• You must possess or can obtain an active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, and analyze ML models for supervised and reinforcement learning.
• Collaborate with other data scientists and educate non-data-science teams on ML value and limitations.
• Identify and design training data sets and implement ML models from literature.
• Develop MLOps pipelines.
• Communicate results in written documents and oral presentations.

Skills

Deep learning

Python

Reinforcement learning

RL development tools

MLOps

DevOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Jax

OpenAI Gymnasium

Ray RLlib

Git

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Job description

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is seeking an AI Engineer to join the Technical Solutions division and help design ML solutions for defense and cyber domains. You will build, train, and evaluate ML models, work with data scientists, and communicate results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The role requires a STEM degree, hands-on DL experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow/Jax, and the ability to obtain an active Secret clearance. Collaboration and strong written/verbal skills are essential.