AI/ML Developer

Job Title: AI/ML Developer


Location: Chevy Chase, MD ( 3 Days onsite)


Duration: 3+ Months

Summary:


We are seeking an experienced AI/ML developer to work alongside our Principal AI Architect on active


machine-learning projects. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role for someone who can pick up existing work, get it production-ready, and work independently with minimal ramp-up. The work is Python- based in a Linux environment.

The Project - Application Triage (ML Classification)


Pick up an in-progress text-classification effort and take it to production. Existing datasets and several models (SVM, SetFit, GenAI for sentence classification) are already built.

Scope
• Review and verify our existing code; identify and fix problems.
• Harden the models and pipeline for production.
• Apply sound evaluation methodology - precision/recall on imbalanced data, proper train/eval


separation.
• Conduct applied R&D - read relevant research, try open-source projects, evaluate results, and present findings to business users on how well different approaches meet their needs. A near-term goal is evaluating algorithms for assessing a paper's innovation, transformativeness, scientific rigor, and impact. This work is guided by the Principal AI Architect.

Required
• Strong applied experience with both traditional machine learning and deep learning for text


classification.
• Solid grasp of model evaluation methods and their common pitfalls.
• Able to read, debug, and improve existing ML code independently.
• Comfortable doing applied research - reading papers, trying open-source tools, and evaluating them - and clearly presenting results to non-technical business users.

Additional Requirements
• Proficient in Python; comfortable working in a Linux environment.
• Able to work independently on well-scoped tasks with minimal supervision.
• Production-minded - writes maintainable, testable code, not just notebooks.

Nice to Have
• Microsoft Azure/AWS
• Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes).