Senior ML Engineer & Team Lead — Remote (Secret Clearance)

AItoolnavio; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary 230k–280k per year

Job summary

AItoolnavio is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Team Lead (Active Secret Clearance) based in the United States. You will guide advanced AI systems for government applications, balancing hands-on ML with customer collaboration and production deployment.

You will mentor teams, define technical direction, and ensure reliability and trustworthiness of models across environments, with up to 25% travel and hybrid work in Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related field; at least 10 years of experience.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams across office, remote, and customer-facing environments.
• Experience defining, scoping, planning, and delivering complex production ML/AI solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills for diverse audiences.
• Strong Python and at least one systems programming language; knowledge of algorithms and cloud development.
• Experience deploying ML models and production analytics; familiar with modern software engineering tools and practices.
• Active Secret security clearance or higher and U.S. citizenship is mandatory.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and delivery of complex production ML/AI solutions from data shaping to end-user deployment.
• Serve as hands-on contributor while guiding engineering teams and customer environments.
• Define project scope, technical plans, and coordinate resources for successful delivery.
• Build, train, evaluate, optimize, and deploy ML models for real-world applications.
• Design architectures, production analytics, and cloud-based solutions.
• Collaborate with customers to translate feedback into technical requirements.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to engineers, customers, and stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and promote strong technical practices across distributed teams.
• Travel to customer sites or project environments up to 25%.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Python

Systems programming

Cloud architectures

Communication

Education

Advanced degree in Data Science / ML / CS

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NATS

Cloud platforms

Job description

AItoolnavio is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer – Team Lead (Active Secret Clearance) based in the United States. You will guide advanced AI systems for government applications, balancing hands-on ML with customer collaboration and production deployment.

You will mentor teams, define technical direction, and ensure reliability and trustworthiness of models across environments, with up to 25% travel and hybrid work in Austin, TX.