Senior Machine Learning Engineer ( TS/TS/SCI Clearance)

🚨Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineers 🚨

\n

Active U.S. Secret clearance required to be considered for this role

\n\n

Working on a high-impact opportunity with a VC-backed start up building AI systems used in real-world national security environments.

\n\n

You’ll be building and shipping production LLM systems that operate in secure, mission-critical settings.

\n\n

💡 What you’ll be doing:

\n

\n
• Designing and deploying LLM systems (RAG, embeddings, vector search)
\n
• Building APIs and backend services for AI-powered applications
\n
• Working across the full stack from data pipelines to inference
\n
• Shipping systems into secure, sometimes air-gapped environments
\n

\n\n

🧠 What they’re looking for:

\n

\n
• Strong backend engineering skills (Python and/or JavaScript)
\n
• Experience deploying ML systems into production
\n
• Hands-on with LLMs, vector databases, or agentic workflows
\n
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment
\n

\n\n

🔐 Requirements:

\n

\n
• Active U.S. Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
\n
• U.S. Citizenship required
\n
• No Sponsorship provided
\n

\n\n

📍 Location: Washington DC OR Mclean Virginia

\n

💰 Excellent Salary+ meaningful equity