Principal Backend Software Engineer

Nyla Technology Solutions; Maryland; In loco; USD 209.000 - 247.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Nyla FLEX program

Health care benefits

401k matching

Professional development $5,000/year

Student loan repayment program

Volunteer hours

Descrizione del lavoro

Nyla Technology Solutions is seeking an NLP/Data Scientist with TS/SCI clearance to design, develop, and deploy advanced ML and NLP pipelines. You will transform massive text and multimodal data into structured intelligence and build production-grade inference systems integrated into enterprise environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering teams to deploy state-of-the-art models and ensure scalable, reliable solutions.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with 14+ years experience.
• Alternative: High School Diploma/GED with 18+ years of specialized technical experience in lieu of a degree.

Mansioni

• Lead design, development, and deployment of advanced ML models and NLP pipelines.
• Transform massive unstructured text and multimodal datasets into structured intelligence.
• Develop production-grade inference pipelines and deploy models into enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate state-of-the-art models at scale.

Conoscenze

NLP Frameworks

Production ML / MLOps

Data Manipulation & SQL

Model Evaluation

Computational Linguistics

Formazione

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science/CS/Computational Linguistics

14+ years experience

High School Diploma / GED + 18+ years experience

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

Triton

TorchServe

FastAPI

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

spaCy

Python

SQL

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description

ACTIVE SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE TS/SCI POLYGRAPH LEVEL IS REQUIRED

The Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Data Scientist leads the design, development, and deployment of advanced machine learning models and computational linguistics pipelines. This role is responsible for transforming massive, unstructured text and multimodal datasets into structured intelligence, developing production-grade inference pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to integrate state-of-the-art models into enterprise operational environments.

The annual base salary range for this role is $209,000-$247,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Required Skills

• Advanced NLP & Deep Learning Frameworks: Hands-on expertise building and fine-tuning neural network architectures using Python and modern ML/NLP frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, spaCy).
• Production Machine Learning & MLOps: Proven track record deploying models into scalable production pipelines utilizing containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and model-serving frameworks (e.g., Triton, TorchServe, FastAPI).
• Data Manipulation & Querying: Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL for vectorization, feature extraction, and manipulation of massive structured and unstructured text datasets.
• Model Evaluation & Performance Benchmarking: Expertise in implementing rigorous quantitative evaluation metrics (e.g., BLEU, ROUGE, F1-score, perplexity) and debugging complex model edge cases.
• Applied Computational Linguistics: In-depth understanding of linguistic foundations, semantic analysis, named entity recognition (NER), relation extraction, and embedding techniques.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline, PLUS 14+ years of professional experience in data science, NLP, or software engineering OR High School Diploma / GED, PLUS 18+ years of specialized technical experience in lieu of a degree.

Desired Skills

• Large Language Model (LLM) Adaptation: Practical experience with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT/LoRA), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, and prompt engineering.
• Distributed Data Processing: Experience leveraging distributed compute platforms (e.g., Apache Spark, Ray, Dask) to process large-scale text corpora.
• Vector Databases & Semantic Search: Hands-on implementation of vector indexing and similarity search engines (e.g., Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, OpenSearch).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with deploying and monitoring AI/ML workloads across cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Secure Coding & Model Governance: Experience implementing model governance, data security, and mitigation techniques for model bias, hallucinations, and adversarial prompt attacks.

About Nyla Technology Solutions

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.

If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team,

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

PAY

Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE

Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE

Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS?

Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click here.

Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.