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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

McLean Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior ML Engineer leading end-to-end delivery of DoD-focused computer vision and machine learning systems, serving as primary technical point of contact for customers.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (computer vision) with technical leadership responsibilities

Builds

Production-grade ML/CV systems, detection/segmentation/tracking models, and edge-deployed inference services

Domain

Defense (DoD), Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Computer vision (YOLO, CenterNet, RetinaNet, Detectron2, ViTs), Python, PyTorch, data pipeline construction, model training and evaluation, edge deployment (NVIDIA Jetson), ONNX/TensorRT, CI/CD, MLOps, technical proposal writing, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

DoD project experience, Secret/TS/SCI clearance, team mentoring, multi-sensor fusion, synthetic data generation, domain adaptation

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, scipy, pandas, polars, Git, Docker, ONNX, TensorRT, NVIDIA Jetson

Responsibilities

Scope requirements and set technical strategy for DoD ML/CV projects; lead technical discussions and briefings with senior stakeholders; build data pipelines and train/evaluate CV models; deploy models to edge devices with monitoring; contribute to business development via proposals and white papers; present results to DoD and industry customers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership duties

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