AI/ML Engineer

Responsibilities

Noblis ESI is seeking to hire an AI/ML Engineer to support our government customer on-site in Chantilly, VA.

As an experienced AI/ML Engineer with our team, you will be working with our federal clients as SETA support to advise the government on developers innovative solutions for our client's mission challenges with a focus on ML models. In this role, you will work with the development team on behalf of the government to ensure best practices and state of the art data science/machine learning processes are utilized for implementation of ML solutions to satisfy the government's requirements.

Responsibilities Include:

• Advise the government customer on innovative solutions with a focus on ML models.
• Directly support the government , monitoring and verifying that the developer applies best practices and state-of-the-art data science and machine learning processes.
• Assist the government in developing business or product requirements for specific missions.
• Advise the government in the development of business or product requirements for specific missions.
• Advise the government in the developer's translation of business or product requirements into ML solutions.
• Review the developer's design and implementation of feature engineering pipelines.
• Review and advise the government on the developer's deployment of models into multi-node Ray clusters.
• Work with large datasets and support a Linux and Windows environment.

Required Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
• ship is required.
• Bachelor's degree OR Master's degree with 5-8 years of experience OR Associates degree with 8+ years of experience OR High School diploma with 11+ years of experience.
• Experience working professional in a Data Science or development environment within the Intelligence Community (IC).
• Experience developing and using agentic AI frameworks including Autogen.
• Experience with prompt engineering beyond traditional code writing and debugging.
• Understanding of how to craft prompts for discrete tasks such as data labeling and processing.
• Experience with asynchronous Python development using frameworks like Ray and FastAPI.
• Experience developing and deploying AI/ML models as part of production systems, implementing software development best practices for scalability and reliability.
• Experience developing and applying advanced machine learning methods including clustering, regression, optimization, recommender engines, and artificial neural networks.
• Deploying models into multi-node Ray clusters utilizing various GPU resources.
• Experience with developing and deploying resources to cloud environments.
• Experience working within Linux and Windows environments and managing resources for efficiency.
• Experience or knowledge of:
  • Python
  • Ray and FastAPI
  • Autogen and other agentic frameworks
  • PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, and Scikit
  • Experience using CUDA and NVDIA GPU accelerated libraries

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of MCP Tool calling and its use as part of an agentic workflow.
• Familiarity with industry best practices for software/hardware optimization specifically related to running ML models of GPUs.
• Experience working with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), and Microsoft Azure.
• STEM degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Analytics, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, etc.

Overview

Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

Why work at a Noblis company?

Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.

*Remote/hybrid status is subject to change based on Noblis and/or government requirements

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, pregnancy/childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran or military status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us.

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Total Rewards

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis' total compensation package.

Posted Salary Range

USD $132,900.00 - USD $207,750.00 /Yr.