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TS/SCI w/Poly - AI/ML Data Engineer

Chantilly, Virginia, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and optimize multilingual machine translation models and data pipelines for Human Language Technologies (HLT) to support text and audio translation capabilities.

Role type

Senior AI/ML Data Engineer (NLP/Translation)

Builds

Custom ML models for translation, scalable data pipelines, and cloud-native ML solutions for low-resource languages.

Domain

Defense/Security, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda), Docker, MLOps, CI/CD, statistical analysis, machine learning, deep learning, data engineering

Preferred skills

Transformer models (NLLB, Opus-MT, MarianMT), Hugging Face, Ray, PyTorch Distributed, MLflow, W&B, DVC, LLMs, audio processing (Librosa, PyAudioAnalysis)

Technologies

AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, EC2, VPC, Docker, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Ray, MLflow, Weights & Biases, DVC, spaCy, NLTK, Librosa

Responsibilities

Develop and fine-tune multilingual machine translation models; Build and manage multilingual text and speech datasets; Design and maintain scalable data pipelines and MLOps workflows; Deploy cloud-native ML solutions using AWS services; Engineer features to optimize model performance; Research and evaluate emerging AI/NLP/speech technologies.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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