Remote Data Scientist, Azure Databricks & AI for Government

Peregrine Advisors LLC; Alexandria (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors LLC is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We hire people who take ownership and help shape the company.

You will build, evaluate, and put into production machine learning and generative AI models that federal agencies rely on. This is a remote, W-2 role with security and suitability requirements.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of data science or ML engineering with production deployments.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Python for data science and ML with pandas, scikit-learn, PySpark.
• Hands-on Azure Databricks work, including MLflow for experiment tracking.
• Deploying and monitoring models in production with versioning and drift monitoring.
• Building LLM applications including RAG approaches.
• SQL and Git version control.
• Experience delivering in a federal government environment with security requirements.
• Proficiency in writing, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• United States citizenship; dual citizenship and green card holders prohibited.

Responsibilities

• Develop and train ML models on Azure Databricks, tracking experiments and versions.
• Build reusable features in the Databricks Feature Store and serve models.
• Develop agent apps with Databricks AI Search and Azure OpenAI models.
• Evaluate model quality with MLflow evaluation and human review.
• Monitor production models for drift and document results.
• Deliver trusted, explainable models and maintain deployment pipelines.

Skills

Data science

ML engineering

Python

Pandas

Spark

MLflow

LLM applications

SQL

Git

Model deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure Databricks

MLflow

Databricks Feature Store

Databricks Model Serving

Databricks AI Search

Azure OpenAI / Foundry

Job description

Peregrine Advisors LLC is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We hire people who take ownership and help shape the company.

You will build, evaluate, and put into production machine learning and generative AI models that federal agencies rely on. This is a remote, W-2 role with security and suitability requirements.