Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning Engineer

Job Description

The Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Engineer designs, creates, tests, and productizes AI/ML algorithms to solve business challenges. The AI/ML models they create should be capable of learning and making predictions as defined by the business logic developed to meet customer requirements. The AI/ML Engineer should be proficient in all aspects of model architecture, data pipeline interaction, and metrics application, interpretation, and presentation. The AI/ML Engineer needs familiarity with foundational concepts of application development, infrastructure management, data engineering, and data governance. Through an understanding of training, retraining ,deploying, scheduling, monitoring, and improving models through iterative user and system feedback, the AI/ML Engineer designs and creates scalable solutions for optimal performance. The AI/ML Engineer may be responsible for leading geographically diverse teams and will often serve as a primary POC for AI-related matters, so must have exceptional analytical, problem-solving and communication skills. Expert knowledge of multiple programming languages, e.g. Python, Java, C, R, a plus

.

The Level 3 Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/Ml) Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:

- Select appropriate data sets

- Perform statistical analysis.

- Run machine learning algorithms.

- Use results to improve models.

- Train and retrain systems when needed.

- Experience in working with various ML libraries and packages.

- Run standard test and evaluation protocols.

- Provide system integration oversight.

- Oversee Test and evaluation of AI and ML algorithms through an iterative design process to meet verification and validation requirements

- Research and implement a broad range of AI and ML algorithms and tools.

- Design or Select appropriate data and knowledge representation methods.

- Recognize software architecture, data modeling, and data structures.

- Transform and convert data science prototypes into scalable solutions.

- Verify data and model output quality.

- Identify differences in data distribution that affect model performance.

- Develop criteria for test and evaluation to include explainability and resiliency.

- Deep understanding of AI logic, semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation.

- Demonstrated ability to design, evaluate, and productize AI/ML models on a range of commercial cloud-based architectures.

- Design ML algorithms according to customer requirements.

- Research, experiment with, and implement suitable ML algorithms and tools.

- Broaden current AI/ML frameworks and machine learning libraries.

Required Skills

10 years experience deploying machine learning algorithms is required. A Master's or Ph.D. degree in advanced math, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science or deep learning from an accredited college or university is required. 7 additional years machine learning experience with a relevant Bachelor's degree may be substituted for a Master's degree. Demonstrated abilities in software engineering and AI/ML model test and evaluation.

About Us

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government. Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn, earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry. We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package. And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.

PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company. You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week). There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family? Want more time to travel the world? You can

BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave. That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle? With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love. It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS? Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company. We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth. We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a

better place.