Senior ML Engineer – NLP & MLOps (Onsite, Richmond)

Pennant Solutions Group; Richmond, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennant Solutions Group is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Richmond, VA to design, develop, and deploy advanced NLP-focused ML systems. You will lead production-grade ML pipelines and MLOps practices, mentoring teammates and shaping best practices across the organization.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS SageMaker, transformer models, and scalable ML architectures, with on-site collaboration in our Richmond office.

Qualifications

• Senior ML engineer with production ML experience
• Strong NLP knowledge with practical deployments
• Experience with AWS SageMaker and ML pipelines
• Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy ML models with emphasis on NLP applications
• Build end-to-end ML pipelines using AWS SageMaker
• Implement transformer-based models and fine-tune large language models
• Conduct experiments, A/B testing, and model evaluation
• Architect and maintain robust MLOps infrastructure and CI/CD for ML

Skills

NLP

MLOps

AWS SageMaker

Transformer models

Production ML

Tools

SageMaker Pipelines

MLflow

Job description

Pennant Solutions Group is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in Richmond, VA to design, develop, and deploy advanced NLP-focused ML systems. You will lead production-grade ML pipelines and MLOps practices, mentoring teammates and shaping best practices across the organization.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with AWS SageMaker, transformer models, and scalable ML architectures, with on-site collaboration in our Richmond office.