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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector

Washington, DC💼 Full-time💰 $235,200–$235,200🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and deliver end-to-end agentic AI, generative AI, and computer vision systems for mission-critical government operations, focusing on agent frameworks, memory systems, and geospatial reasoning.

Role type

Senior IC Machine Learning Engineer (Agentic Systems & GenAI)

Builds

Production-ready agent frameworks, LLM-based planning systems, and evaluation tooling for government partners.

Domain

Public Sector / Defense / Government Operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Architectural design for agentic systems, Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, reinforcement learning, computer vision, LLM integration, geospatial reasoning, ML evaluation benchmarking, mentoring engineers

Preferred skills

Cloud deployment (AWS/GCP), inference optimization, fine-tuning (SFT/RL/embeddings), experience in classified/air-gapped environments, GEOINT experience

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, AWS, GCP

Responsibilities

Own architecture and implementation of new agent capabilities, build evaluation benchmarks and LLM judges, optimize production models, partner with product teams, mentor engineers, communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders, engineer around security constraints

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with architectural authority

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