Senior NLP Systems Engineer — TS/SCI Clearance

Toffler Associates, Inc; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Toffler Associates, Inc. seeks a senior consultant to lead complex, data-intensive engagements in defense and intelligence sectors. You will ensure high-quality work, manage engagement health, guide teams, and strengthen client relationships on-site in Bethesda, MD.

Candidates must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph and a STEM degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, including NLP/AI governance, ML/NLP pipelines, and systems engineering.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with a polygraph is required.
• Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields.
• 8+ years of work experience in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields.
• Experience with AI/ML, NLP, and data-intensive environments.
• Knowledge of NLP methodologies such as text classification, named entity recognition, topic modeling, information extraction, or transformer-based architectures.
• Experience developing or evaluating NLP pipelines, including text preprocessing, tokenization, model training, fine-tuning, and optimization for mission environments.
• Understanding of data architectures and pipelines for large-scale analytics/intelligence production.
• Familiarity with AI governance, data quality, bias mitigation, and mission assurance in operational NLP/LLM deployments.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the quality of work, health of the engagement, team performance, and client relationships.

Skills

Active TS/SCI with polygraph

NLP methodologies

Transformer architectures

AI/ML knowledge

Text classification/NER

Data architectures

NLP pipelines

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or engineering

Master's or PhD in related field (nice to have)

Tools

Hugging Face

PyTorch

TensorFlow

spaCy

Job description

Toffler Associates, Inc. seeks a senior consultant to lead complex, data-intensive engagements in defense and intelligence sectors. You will ensure high-quality work, manage engagement health, guide teams, and strengthen client relationships on-site in Bethesda, MD.

Candidates must hold an active TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph and a STEM degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, including NLP/AI governance, ML/NLP pipelines, and systems engineering.