Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Agentic AI Systems (TS/SCI)
Location: Chantilly, VA (On-site/Hybrid)Comp: $180,000 – $220,000Experience: 4+ years (up to 50)Clearance: TS/SCIType: Full-time
Design and deploy next‑gen agentic AI systems.
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About the role
Hands‑on role focused on rapidly developing ML solutions with cross‑functional teams. Work alongside cyber analysts on cyber data to deliver models for object detection, data triage, search/optimization, inference, behavior detection, and automated discovery and decision making. Maintain robust model versioning and improve model resilience by identifying emerging vulnerabilities.
What you’ll do
Architect, train, and deploy AI systems for reasoning, planning, and multi‑step decision‑making.
Build and scale distributed training/inference pipelines using Ray and modern cloud infrastructure.
Integrate agentic AI into operational environments across cross‑functional teams.
Prototype techniques from memory‑augmented models to tool‑use orchestration.
Develop ML models on cyber data to support object detection, data triage, search/optimization, inference, behavior detection, and automated discovery and decision making.
Partner with cyber analysts and SMEs to translate operational needs into deployable models and services.
Maintain a robust model versioning and experiment tracking system.
Identify new vulnerabilities and failure modes in models; implement defenses, monitoring, and continual evaluation.
Influence strategy and the future of intelligent autonomous systems.
What we’re looking for
4+ years building ML solutions at scale.
Strong Python; deep experience with PyTorch/TensorFlow.
Hands‑on distributed systems experience (Ray highly valued).
Understanding of LLM orchestration, memory, retrieval, and planning.
Experience with MLOps/model versioning and experiment tracking (e.g., MLflow, DVC, Weights & Biases).
Experience working with cyber/network telemetry or security datasets is a plus.
Familiarity with model security/adversarial ML; ability to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.