SDVOSB, Systems Integrator to Federal Civilian Agencies, the Intelligence Community, and Department. of Defense.

AI/ML Engineer, Python

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerContractRemoteTeam 11-50Since 2006H1B No SponsorCompany Site LinkedIn

Location

Virginia

Posted

31 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSAzurePythonPy TorchTensorflow

Job Description

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years preferred strong analytical, problem-solving, planning, organizational and project management skills • Python 3+ with ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow, Transformers) • Document processing: PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, OCR tools, layout parsing

Job Requirements

Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI pipelines for content moderation including production ML models for compliance classification and active learning workflows enabling human-in-the-loop label review and validation.
Engage with operational business stakeholders to identify key initiatives and execute solutions to business problems using data analysis and advanced analytics
Extract text/tables from PDF documents using OCR (Tesseract, AWS Textract, Azure Form Recognizer)
Create/build labeling pipelines for training datasets from document corpora
Train custom ML models (NLP/OCR) for document classification, extraction, entity recognition
Implement end-to-end pipeline: PDF → labeling → training → inference → API serving
Version control all code, datasets, and models using Git (DVC for ML datasets preferred)
Deploy models as REST APIs (FastAPI) for production document processing
Work collaboratively to align business requirements with data and analytical solutions while empowering business to draw insights and analyze data while
Identify areas of concern of as-is processes and business dependencies
Coordinating and facilitating requirement gathering, playing an active role in the discovery, analysis, value validation, design, and testing phases.
Ideate with functional analysts and business process owners.

Benefits

Must CURRENTLY possess active BI or NACLC Public Trust security clearance
Bachelor’s degree with 7 years preferred strong analytical, problem-solving, planning, organizational and project management skills
Experience in a matrix structure and communicating with technical and non-technical people.
Ability to develop and deliver presentations that simplify complex solutions/insights for non-technical audience a must
Excellent innovation, interpersonal, and communication skills required.
At least 5 years of work experience in analytical role
Python 3+ with ML frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow, Transformers)
Document processing: PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, OCR tools, layout parsing
Data labeling/annotation experience (LabelStudio, Prodigy)
Model training lifecycle: preprocessing, augmentation, validation, fine-tuning
Git proficiency (branching, MLflow/DVC integration)
SQL/Pandas for data handling
SAS and Tableau development experience a plus
Strong conceptual, analytical, and decision-making skills
Ability to work as a collaborative team, mentoring and training the client on the various tools and techniques to build a complete Analytics solution
Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and take the initiative to learn new tools quickly.