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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Austin, TX💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-16 → 2026-09-25

Core

Transforming prototype AI models into scalable, efficient, and reliable production systems for secure, distributed environments across government cloud and edge devices.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Production AI Systems)

Builds

Production-ready agentic workflows, optimized AI models, and RAG pipelines for public sector clients.

Domain

Public Sector / Applied AI / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Model optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation), RAG pipeline engineering, multi-modal AI development, distributed system deployment, edge inference strategies

Preferred skills

Edge AI and federated learning, AI governance frameworks, microservice architecture integration, GPU computing and CUDA profiling

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, LoRA, PEFT, Vector databases (Quadrant, ChromaDB, FAISS, Milvus, Pinecone)

Responsibilities

Design and deploy agentic workflows for multi-step reasoning; Engineer adaptive ML systems using on-device inference strategies; Implement model optimization techniques for hardware acceleration; Build and maintain RAG pipelines with vector database integration; Optimize model execution for resource-constrained environments; Work with multi-modal AI systems across vision, audio, and NLP.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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