Posted 4mo ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

@ TheIncLab
McLean, Virginia, United States
HybridFull Time
Responsibilities:Research approaches, Design models, Own pipelines
Requirements Summary:7+ years of ML experience; BS in CS/Engineering/Applied Math; PyTorch or TensorFlow; end-to-end ML pipelines; strong Python; explain model behavior; software engineering practices.
Technical Tools Mentioned:PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLflow, Weights & Biases, Python, Git, Jira, Confluence
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Job Description

The Mission Starts Here 

TheIncLab engineers and delivers intelligent digital applications and platforms that revolutionize how our customers and mission-critical teams achieve success.  

We are where innovation meets purpose; and where your career can meet purpose as well.  We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to that will focus on researching, designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models to solve complex, real-world problems.  We encourage you to apply and take the first step in joining our dynamic and impactful company.

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept 

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will research, evaluate, and select appropriate machine Learning approaches and architectures based on the problem definition.   

What will you do? 

  • Research, evaluate, and select appropriate machine learning approaches and architectures based on the problem definition
  • Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
  • Neural networks, decision trees, ensemble methods
  • Transformer-based models, adversarial networks, genetic algorithms
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) where appropriate
  • Design and implement machine learning models using frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent
  • Formulate and solve optimization problems using ML techniques
  • Pathfinding and routing
  • Combinatorial and constraint-based optimization Heuristic and learning-based optimization approaches
  • Own data pipelines for ML systems
  • Data validation and quality checks
  • Feature engineering and preprocessing
  • Data augmentation strategies for training robustness
  • Train, tune, and debug models, addressing issues such as overfitting, instability, bias, and performance degradation
  • Define and apply appropriate evaluation metrics, analyze results and iteratively improve model performance
  • For transformer-based systems
  • Optimize context window usage Manage token budgets, chunking strategies, and retrieval mechanisms
  • Balance performance, accuracy, and computational cost
  • Integrate ML models and data pipelines into production systems
  • Make technical decisions and provide architectural guidance for ML systems
  • Document experiments, results, and design decisions using tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence
  • Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices in ML development Stay current with emerging ML research, tools, and techniques
  • Ability to travel up to 20%