Elder Research · 12 hours ago
AI/ML Engineer
Arlington, VA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expElder Research Inc. is a subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeking a motivated AI/ML Engineer. The role involves designing, deploying, and operating production-grade AI systems to enhance customer safety analytics and improve decision-making processes.
AnalyticsConsultingDatabaseInformation TechnologyTraining
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Build, Deploy & Maintain ML Models
Implement, productionize, and optimize ML solutions (supervised/unsupervised, NLP, deep learning) with robust data preprocessing, feature engineering, evaluation, and calibration pipelines to ensure reliability, fairness, and performance at scale
Establish end-to-end MLOps workflows including CI/CD, experiment tracking, model registry, reproducible builds, and deployments
Design high-quality data pipelines (ingest, transform, validate) across structured and unstructured sources, enforce data contracts/lineage, and collaborate with analytics teams to make datasets discoverable, documented, and performant
Implement model monitoring (drift, data/feature quality, bias, business KPIs), alerting, and automated rollback for safe, responsive systems
Build AI agents using Copilot Studio and Python frameworks to operationalize safety analytics, accelerating triage and decision-making
Integrate agents with APIs, event streams, dashboards, and case management systems to reduce time from signal to action
Champion secure-by-design practices, reproducibility, and auditability (model cards, data sheets, deployment records)
Contribute to coding standards, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring
Work in Agile teams to drive iterative delivery, continuous improvement, and translate mission goals into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes tied to Sentinel time-to-intervention targets
Qualification
Required
3+ years hands-on developing and deploying AI/ML models in production environments
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
Proficient in Python, including packaging, testing, and performance optimization
Solid understanding of ML algorithms, model selection, training, validation, optimization, and evaluation at scale
Skilled in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and visualization to support decision-making
Experienced with PyTorch/TensorFlow and modern MLOps practices, including deployment, monitoring, scaling, CI/CD, experiment tracking, and model registry
Hands-on experience with Azure for AI/ML workloads (Azure ML, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake)
Experience developing AI agents using Copilot Studio and Python frameworks, including tooling, orchestration, retrieval, and connectors
Current Public Trust Desired
Must be a US Citizen and be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance prior to starting this position
Preferred
Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures (Event Hubs), feature stores, and vector databases for retrieval-augmented generation
Hands-on with responsible AI practices (fairness, explainability, privacy), model governance (model cards, audits), and cloud ML security
Familiarity with domain-specific risk analytics and working in public-sector or regulated environments
Azure AI/ML and/or MLOps certifications considered advantageous
Company
Elder Research
Elder Research, Inc. is a consulting company in data science, predictive analytics, and text mining.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$3M2025-12-10Acquired
2023-10-16Series Unknown· $3M
Leadership Team
Gerhard Pilcher
CEO
Jeff Deal
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
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2025-12-11
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