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Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

Washington, DC💼 Full-time💰 $274,400–$274,400🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the design and deployment of agentic AI systems for mission-critical government environments, focusing on long-horizon reasoning, orchestration, and system-level reliability.

Role type

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Agentic AI & Systems)

Builds

Agentic AI systems, geospatial reasoning agents, retrieval systems, memory systems, and shared agentic infrastructure.

Domain

Public Sector / Defense & Intelligence / Agentic AI / Geospatial

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agentic systems design, long-horizon reasoning, system-level reliability, geospatial reasoning, retrieval systems, embedding models, memory systems, evaluation strategies, Python, PyTorch, model serving, pipelines, monitoring

Preferred skills

Air-gapped/classified environment deployment, DoD/intelligence community experience, GEOINT, model adaptation (LoRA/PEFT/RLHF), non-deterministic system evaluation infrastructure

Technologies

Python, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and implementation of agentic AI systems; Build and scale agents for complex geospatial reasoning; Design and improve retrieval systems for large document collections; Fine-tune and evaluate embedding models; Design memory systems for state persistence; Own and evolve shared agentic infrastructure; Define evaluation strategies including robustness and failure-mode analysis; Partner with engineering managers and product leaders; Serve as a technical mentor.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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