Senior ML Engineer - IDP & Production AI (Remote)

Pantheon Data LLC.; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

SmartBenefits program

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Pantheon Data LLC, based in the Washington, DC area, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build production‑oriented AI/IDP systems. You will move beyond experiments to deliver scalable Python services, data pipelines, and model deployments for complex documents.

The role requires depth in NLP, OCR, LLMs, and retrieval systems, plus experience with data pipelines, cloud infra, containers, and observability. Remote work is supported with occasional on-site collaboration in Reston, VA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from an ABET accredited university.
• 5+ years of professional hands‑on experience in machine learning engineering, AI engineering, data science engineering, or a closely related software engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience building AI/ML systems beyond notebooks, prototypes, or demos.
• Strong Python engineering experience, including readable, maintainable code; debugging; testing; packaging; and integration with other systems.
• Hands‑on experience with NLP, OCR, computer vision, LLMs, embeddings, semantic search, RAG, or other document‑understanding techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain ML/AI software components for IDP and Generative AI systems.
• Build data pipelines for unstructured and semi‑structured data, including document ingestion, extraction, cleaning, enrichment, validation, and storage.
• Develop and evaluate NLP, OCR, computer vision, embedding, retrieval, and LLM‑based approaches for document understanding use cases.
• Create APIs, internal tools, review interfaces, dashboards, or validation workflows that allow engineers and users to inspect, correct, and trust system output.
• Contribute production‑quality code with clear structure, tests, logging, error handling, and documentation.
• Deploy and support ML/AI services in cloud or containerized environments, including model serving, batch processing, and workflow automation.
• Design evaluation approaches for extraction quality, retrieval quality, model behavior, hallucination risk, and end‑to‑end system performance.
• Troubleshoot system behavior across model output, data quality, retrieval, schema design, infrastructure, latency, cost, and user workflow issues.
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical quality of the team.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including project managers, customers, and executive leadership.

Skills

Python

NLP

OCR

LLMs

Data pipelines

Cloud

Containers

Git workflows

Communication

Education

ABET-accredited CS/Engineering degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

scikit-learn

Hugging Face

MLflow

Job description

Pantheon Data LLC, based in the Washington, DC area, seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build production‑oriented AI/IDP systems. You will move beyond experiments to deliver scalable Python services, data pipelines, and model deployments for complex documents.

The role requires depth in NLP, OCR, LLMs, and retrieval systems, plus experience with data pipelines, cloud infra, containers, and observability. Remote work is supported with occasional on-site collaboration in Reston, VA.