Senior AI/ML Data Engineer — Multilingual NLP & MLOps

Leading Path Consulting; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous starting salary with annual"

Fully paid Medical, Dental and Vision

Generous PTO and Comp time

11 paid holidays

6% 401(k) auto contribution

Company-funded life insurance

Tuition and Training expense reimburse

Cash bonus SPOT Awards

Job summary

Leading Path Consulting is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to advance multilingual language technologies. The role involves training and refining text and audio translation models, and building data pipelines for model training and deployment in a production environment.

The ideal candidate has extensive software engineering experience, expertise in Python and ML frameworks, and familiarity with AWS ML services and MLOps practices. TS/SCI w/Poly is required or anticipated in security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent).
• 10+ years of related software engineering experience.
• Experience with Python, ML/DL frameworks, and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Develop, fine-tune, evaluate, and optimize multilingual machine translation models (e.g., NLLB, Opus-MT, MarianMT).
• Build, preprocess, and manage multilingual text and speech datasets for model training, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and end-to-end MLOps workflows for data ingestion, model training, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Develop and deploy cloud-native machine learning solutions using AWS services such as SageMaker, Step Functions, and Bedrock.
• Deploy and support machine learning models in production using containerized environments and CI/CD best practices.
• Engineer features and optimize datasets to improve machine learning model performance.
• Conduct testing, validation, benchmarking, and troubleshooting of machine learning models and data pipelines.
• Research and evaluate emerging AI, machine learning, NLP, and speech technologies for mission applications.

Skills

Python

ML/DL modeling

DevOps/MLOps

PyTorch/TensorFlow

Distributed training

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/EE/CE

Tools

Docker

SageMaker

Bedrock

EC2

S3

Job description

Leading Path Consulting is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to advance multilingual language technologies. The role involves training and refining text and audio translation models, and building data pipelines for model training and deployment in a production environment.

The ideal candidate has extensive software engineering experience, expertise in Python and ML frameworks, and familiarity with AWS ML services and MLOps practices. TS/SCI w/Poly is required or anticipated in security clearance.