Machine Learning Engineer

Elder Research; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Elder Research seeks a motivated Machine Learning Engineer to join our Chantilly, VA team. The role focuses on building and deploying AI agents, automating workflows, and enabling human workers to unlock new capabilities.

Candidates should have a TS/SCI clearance with CI poly, a Bachelor's degree with 3+ years of experience, and strong Python/SQL skills. Familiarity with Rest/FastAPI, Langchain, and agentic AI workflows is required.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI).
• Familiarity with developing agenticAI workflows/systems.
• Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic.
• UVicorn (webserver).

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents to automate and optimize workflows.
• Create software to support AI agent communication via APIs and testing.
• Utilize open-source models and proprietary AI tools for agentic systems.
• Develop approaches to secure agentic workflows and evaluate results.
• Ensure AI systems adhere to ethics, transparency, and fairness.

Skills

Python

SQL

API endpoints

Langchain

LangGraph

OpenAI Agents

Pydontic

UVicorn

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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Security Clearance Required - TS/SCI + CI Poly

Remote Type N/A

Time Type Full time

Description & Requirements

Elder Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Machine Learning Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA.

Build and deploy AI agents to both automate and optimize labor intensive workflows, as well as empowering the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilities.

Support program with R&D and customer-facing goals, to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into impact on contract.

Create software to support AI agent communication, connecting models and agents to external services via API calls, testing and debugging tasks, deploying into target environments, setting up monitoring, and ensuring reliable execution of agentic AI systems.

Utilize a combination of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary commercial models.

Develop novel approaches to securing agentic workflows and to evaluating the results for accuracy, performance, and impact.

Ensure AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines, transparency, and fairness principles.

Solid understanding and hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic search.

Minimum Qualifications:

Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.

Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree

Proficiency in Python and SQL

Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI)

Familiarity with developing agenticAI workflows/systems

Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic

UVicorn (webserver)

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with Multi-agent orchestration

Familiarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)

Experience with Graph Analysis

Security Plus

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have an active TS/SCI + Poly

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, via email, phone, & or virtual communication, which may involve delivering presentations.

Elder Research considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.

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