AI/ML Developer

Job Title:  AI/ML Developer

Location: Chevy Chase, MD ( 3 Days onsite) (Need locals of MD)

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.