AI / Machine Learning Engineer (US Cit to pass clearance)

We are seeking to hire a AI / Machine Learning Engineer to join our team working on a multi-year award we have within a Federal Gov t Agency, located in Woodlawn, MD. This role is 100% onsite.

Being a US Cit only is required for passing the Security Clearance (no Dual Citizenship).

This position pays a strong salary package with full benefits (including choice of healthcare plans, dental, vision, life insurance, 3 weeks PTO, 11 Paid Federal Holidays, and a matching 401k).

An option for working on an hourly rate is also available for those not needing a full benefits package.

Required Technical Skills:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Python
• Machine Learning
• PostgreSQL

Highly desired technical skills:

• Experience with NLP technologies
• Experience with machine learning
• Cloud Services Provides (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Web Service technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security, MTOM, SWA
• Relational Databases such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, JDBC
• NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and HBase
• Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, Scala, MapReduce, Pyspark
• XML processing experience such as XSD, XPath, XSL, XSLT, etc.
• ebXML
• IBM MQ Series

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Masters +5 years of experience or Bachelor s degree + 7 years of experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Formulate and rapidly prototype various approaches as well as effectively communicate the pros and cons of each.
• Excellent time management
• Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals
• Provide technical guidance in the fields of NLP, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods
• Provide data-driven approaches to tackle various business and NLP problems
• Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team

Requires proficiency in:

• Python (including developing, testing, and deploying production ML pipelines)
• Regular Expressions
• SQL (PostgreSQL)
• No-SQL (MongoDB)
• Version control systems (Git)
• Experience with ML frameworks: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Transfomers, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LSTM, Keras, Pandas, BERT, CNN, RNN, SVMs, k-Nearest Neighbors, Linear/Logistic Regression and Classification, Ensemble Methods, Graphical Models, Clustering, Tesseract
• Information Extraction
• Statistical model building (particularly classification)
• Ability to draw insights from sparsely labeled textual data
• Ability to leverage domain knowledge as well as ontologies to improve model performance

Knowledge of and experience using various NLP approaches, particularly:

• Pattern recognition/feature extraction
• Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-Supervised learning techniques
• Understanding of various language models (N-Gram, Skipgram, NLM, etc.)
• Practical experience leveraging open source libraries for emerging DNN approaches to NLP (transformers, BERT, RoBERTA, etc.)
• Chunking/Tokenization
• Semantic parsing

If qualified and interested, please send an updated resume along with rate/salary requirement and we will follow up quickly to discuss further details and move forward with your interview process.

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