Senior AI/ML Engineer

*****NOTICE: Position is contingent upon contract award.******

Position Type: Full-Time, (Contract/W-2 Employment) 

Location: Hybrid (US-based; Huntsville, AL preferred for occasional in-person collaboration)

Compensation: $65 - 75/hourly rate Performance Bonus

Anticipated Performance Dates: 07/01/2026 to 03/31/2027 (Duration may be longer if phase II funding is secured)

Reports To: Principal Investigator 

Application Deadline: 05/15/2026

Clearance: Public Trust, eligible for SECRET

Jore Industries, Inc. is headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. We are designing and deploying AI-driven scientific platforms with a focus on materials discovery, methodology validation, and secure architecture.

This Senior Machine Learning Engineer role is a foundational position at Jore Industries, leading the AI/ML implementation of our designed computational platform for AI-driven materials discovery. You will work directly with the founding team and internationally recognized scientific Co-Principal Investigators to translate a fully-specified architecture into a working platform.

• Design, train, and deploy graph neural network models for materials property prediction with rigorous uncertainty quantification
• Develop generative models (variational autoencoders, diffusion architectures, or equivalent) for materials design problems
• Build Bayesian optimization and active learning frameworks for multi-objective materials screening campaigns
• Integrate large language models into scientific computing workflows with appropriate scope controls and federally-compliant provider routing
• Develop Python-based interfaces and orchestration logic between machine learning components and open-source density functional theory (DFT) codes
• Establish ML training pipelines, experiment tracking, model versioning, and reproducibility infrastructure within a federally-compliant cloud environment
• Collaborate with senior scientific Co-Principal Investigators on methodology reviews to ensure ML implementations align with rigorous computational materials science principles
• Produce technical documentation suitable for federal compliance audit and platform expansion
  

Education: PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Materials Science, Computational Chemistry, Physics, or related technical field; OR Master's degree with 5 years of equivalent industry experience

Machine Learning Experience:

• Hands-on experience training and deploying graph neural networks at production scale (PyTorch Geometric, DGL, or equivalent)
• Experience with generative models including variational autoencoders and/or diffusion architectures
• Bayesian optimization experience (BoTorch, Ax, GPyTorch, or equivalent)
• Uncertainty quantification methods (Monte Carlo dropout, deep ensembles, Gaussian processes, or equivalent)
• LLM integration and prompt engineering at production scale

Engineering Capability:

• Strong Python proficiency including ML frameworks (PyTorch, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn)
• Experience with cloud-native ML deployment (Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, or equivalent)
• Experience with containerized ML workflows (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with experiment tracking and ML reproducibility (MLflow, Weights & Biases, or equivalent)

Communication and Collaboration:

• Ability to communicate ML concepts clearly to scientific Co-Principal Investigators including discussing tradeoffs and methodological choices
• Strong written documentation skills for federal compliance audit purposes
• Comfort working in a distributed team environment with regular video conferencing and asynchronous collaboration

Citizenship/Authorization: Must be U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident eligible for federal compliance work

Access our application here: https://joreindustries.io/careers

1. Complete our online form
2. Upload your CV/Resume
3. (Optional Upload) Brief cover letter (1-2 paragraphs) describing why this role interests you and your most relevant prior work
4. Select Area of Interest: Software AI/ML/Cloud/DevOps

Jore Industries, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.