AI/ML Engineering Lead

Linthicum Heights, MD, US • Posted 20 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract W2
6 Months
On-site
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Auditing Skills
  • Azure Machine Learning
  • Bias Mitigation
  • Data Science
  • Information Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Machine Learning Operations
  • Risk Management
  • Airflow
  • Architecture
  • Automation of Tests
  • Cloud Computing
  • Cloud Optimization
  • Continuous Integration
  • Data Ethics
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Pipelines
  • Data Quality
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Docker
  • Experiment Tracking
  • Feature Store
  • Federal Information Security Management Act
  • Generative AI
  • Governance
  • HuggingFace
  • Incident Management
  • Kubernetes
  • Large Language Models
  • Machine Learning
  • Mentoring
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Model Validation
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Public Services
  • Pulumi
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • Pytorch
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Safety Principles
  • Scikit Learn
  • Technical Management
  • Tensorflow
  • Terraform

Summary

Job Description :

1. AI/ML Engineering Lead
Location: Linthicum Heights, MD
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Number of Positions: 5

Position Overview:

The AI/ML Engineering Lead will lead the architecture, development, implementation, and governance of a shared enterprise AI/ML platform supporting multiple state agencies. This role focuses on ML engineering, MLOps, cloud infrastructure, data engineering, and Generative AI to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and responsible AI/ML solutions.

Key Requirements:

  • 16+ years of software or data engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on production ML systems, MLOps, or ML platform engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field; master's degree preferred.
  • Experience building or operating shared enterprise AI/ML platforms supporting multiple teams or agencies.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, and Hugging Face.
  • Hands-on experience with MLflow, Kubeflow, Apache Airflow, or equivalent MLOps tools.
  • Experience with AWS SageMaker or equivalent AI/ML services on Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, model registries, experiment tracking, automated testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architecture, model evaluation, and fine-tuning.
  • Experience with data pipelines, feature stores, data quality, data lineage, and governance.
  • Experience with Terraform or Pulumi and GitOps practices.
  • Strong technical leadership, architecture, mentoring, security, and responsible AI experience.

Preferred Experience:

  • State government, public sector, or highly regulated environments.
  • FedRAMP, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and applicable cybersecurity and privacy requirements.
  • Responsible AI, model explainability, fairness auditing, bias mitigation, and model risk management.
Platform observability, reliability engineering, incident management, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization
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  • Dice Id: 90692364
  • Position Id: 2026-2/17
  • Posted 20 hours ago
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