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Senior AI/ML Engineer

Suitland, Maryland, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and test model and software improvements for the U.S. Census Bureau's LLM Autocoder to assign standardized codes to survey write-in responses.

Role type

Senior AI/ML Engineer (NLP/LLM)

Builds

Production ML models and software components for the American Community Survey (ACS) and other federal surveys

Domain

Federal government / Census data processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, NLP, LLM integration, text classification, prompt design, automated testing, AWS, Git, data processing

Preferred skills

fuzzy matching, dictionary-based coding, survey text classification, ML frameworks (scikit-learn, Pytorch, Hugging Face), handling sensitive data in controlled environments

Technologies

Python, AWS, Git, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Hugging Face

Responsibilities

Develop Python components for text preprocessing and model invocation; Implement changes to prompts and model configurations; Build pilots using LLMs and hybrid approaches; Write comprehensive unit and integration tests; Reproduce and resolve production issues; Partner with MLOps on deployment and rollback; Maintain technical documentation

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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