Senior ML Engineer — Production AI for Federal GovCloud

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

Job summary

Pantheon Data LLC seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems for federal clients, including hybrid RAG applications and Intelligent Document Processing in AWS GovCloud.

You will work on end-to-end data flow, evaluation, and secure deployment, with a focus on evidence-grounded results and DoD/ATO-aligned practices. Remote-friendly in Reston area, VA yet global federal work scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering; 5+ years in ML/AI engineering or closely related role.
• Experience shipping AI/ML systems beyond notebooks and demos: production pipelines, services, APIs, inference endpoints, evaluation harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain ML/AI components for RAG, IDP, and generative AI systems serving federal customers.
• Build and operate data pipelines for unstructured and semi-structured data: ingestion, extraction, cleaning, enrichment, validation, quality scoring, quarantine/review, storage.
• Develop NLP, OCR, computer vision, embedding, retrieval, and LLM-based approaches for document understanding and Q&A.

Skills

Python

AI engineering

AWS Bedrock

RAG architectures

NLP/OCR

Security/compliance

CI/CD

Git workflows

Containerization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Data Science

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

pgvector

Terraform

Docker

AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, S3)

Job description

Pantheon Data LLC seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and operate production AI systems for federal clients, including hybrid RAG applications and Intelligent Document Processing in AWS GovCloud.

You will work on end-to-end data flow, evaluation, and secure deployment, with a focus on evidence-grounded results and DoD/ATO-aligned practices. Remote-friendly in Reston area, VA yet global federal work scope.