Senior AI/ML Engineer - TS/SCI On-Site

Praescient Analytics; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Very competitive salary based on quals

Comprehensive healthcare for you

401(k) with company match

Travel & performance incentives

3 weeks paid time off + $5K training

Job summary

Praescient Analytics is hiring an AI/ML Engineer to lead design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will work on foundational and frontier models (LLMs, CV) to advance data-driven mission pursuits, with responsibilities spanning model development, deployment, and collaboration with analysts.

Requirements include a BS in a technical field and 5+ years in Python or R for AI/ML, plus 5+ years in cloud-based AI/ML deployment and model

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a technical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience utilizing Python or R for AI/ML development.
• Minimum of 5 years of cloud computing experience involving cloud-based AI/ML model execution and deployment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing, tuning, validating, benchmarking, and maintaining AI/ML models.
• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, evaluate, and deploy production-ready AI/ML models and ensembles (including Generative AI, Computer Vision, NLP, classification, and prediction models).
• Transition experimental AI research prototypes into scalable cloud environments with robust ETL pipelines and model maintenance.
• Perform model tuning, benchmarking, experimentation, validation, and ethical AI evaluations.
• Preprocess and clean large-scale unstructured datasets to create training and evaluation datasets.
• Ensure model explainability, interpretability, transparency, and fairness across deployed capabilities.
• Collaborate with mission partners and analysts to document findings in publications, briefings, and code repositories.

Skills

Python

R

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

Flask

Tableau

GitHub

Cloud computing

Multi-cloud environments

AI/ML model development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, or a technical field

Tools

Flask

Tableau

GitHub

Job description

Praescient Analytics is hiring an AI/ML Engineer to lead design, evaluation, deployment, and optimization of AI models for an Intelligence Community agency. You will work on foundational and frontier models (LLMs, CV) to advance data-driven mission pursuits, with responsibilities spanning model development, deployment, and collaboration with analysts.

Requirements include a BS in a technical field and 5+ years in Python or R for AI/ML, plus 5+ years in cloud-based AI/ML deployment and model