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.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy AI agents to both automate and optimize labor intensive workflows, as well as empowering the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilities
- Support program with R&D and customer-facing goals, to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into impact on contract
- Create 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 systems
- Utilize a combination of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary commercial models
- Develop novel approaches to securing agentic workflows and to evaluating the results for accuracy, performance, and impact
- Ensure AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines, transparency, and fairness principles
- Solid 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 search
Skills
- Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph
- Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Familiarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux)
- Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI)
- Experience with developing agenticAI workflows/systems
- Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic
- UVicorn (webserver)
- Streamlit (web apps)
- Security Plus
- Familiarity with Multi-agent orchestration
- Familiarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)
- AWS Cloud experience
- Experience with Graph Analysis
Company Overview
Elder 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/.