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Machine Learning Engineer

Boston, MA🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building and optimizing Large Language Models (LLMs) and NLP capabilities for mission-critical U.S. Department of Defense applications using the DSAIL platform.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (NLP/LLM)

Builds

Secure, reliable AI systems for national security operations

Domain

Defense / National Security / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, NLP, LLM deployment, model fine-tuning, feature engineering, data preprocessing, container orchestration (K8s/Docker), academic paper digestion

Preferred skills

LLM governance, guardrail development, knowledge representation, defense project consulting

Technologies

Python, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Langraph, LlamaIndex, Docker, K8s, Ollama, Transformers

Responsibilities

Integrate ML models into existing systems, optimize data processing and model performance, implement DSAIL capabilities to address LLM limitations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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