[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elder Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation, seeks a motivated Machine Learning Engineer to join their team in Chantilly, VA. The role involves building and deploying AI agents to optimize workflows, supporting R&D goals, and ensuring ethical adherence in AI systems.ResponsibilitiesBuild and deploy AI agents to both automate and optimize labor intensive workflows, as well as empowering the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilitiesSupport program with R&D and customer-facing goals, to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into impact on contractCreate software to support AI agent communication, connecting models and agents to external services via API calls, testing and debugging tasks, deploying into target environments, setting up monitoring, and ensuring reliable execution of agentic AI systemsUtilize a combination of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary commercial modelsDevelop novel approaches to securing agentic workflows and to evaluating the results for accuracy, performance, and impactEnsure AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines, transparency, and fairness principlesSolid understanding and hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic searchSkillsActive U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraphMinimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degreeProficiency in Python and SQLFamiliarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux)Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI)Experience with developing agenticAI workflows/systemsLangchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, PydonticUVicorn (webserver)Streamlit (web apps)Security PlusFamiliarity with Multi-agent orchestrationFamiliarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)AWS Cloud experienceExperience with Graph AnalysisCompany OverviewElder Research, Inc. is a consulting company in data science, predictive analytics, and text mining. It is a sub-organization of ManTech. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://elderresearch.com/.