Oddball

Applied AI/ML Engineer

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16 days ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy machine learning and AI-powered features into production systems.
  • Apply supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning techniques to structured and unstructured data.
  • Build and evaluate models for classification, ranking, prediction, NLP, and anomaly detection.
  • Develop and integrate GenAI solutions including LLM-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and agents.
  • Translate business and user needs into ML problem statements, metrics, and experiments.
  • Implement data pipelines and feature engineering workflows for model training and inference.
  • Evaluate model performance, bias, drift, and reliability, and iterate based on results.
  • Integrate models into APIs, services, and user-facing applications with software engineers.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions involving model serving, scalability, and cost optimization.
  • Document technical approaches, assumptions, and tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • Strong foundation in machine learning concepts including model selection, training, validation, and evaluation.
  • Experience building and deploying ML models in real-world applications.
  • Proficiency in Python and common ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.
  • Experience with large language models, embeddings, and prompt-driven systems.
  • Familiarity with data-processing tools and workflows such as Pandas, SQL, and Spark.
  • Understanding of software engineering best practices including version control, testing, and code reviews.
  • Ability to evaluate tradeoffs among accuracy, latency, cost, and maintainability.
  • Strong communication skills and comfort working with cross-functional teams.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
  • Candidates must be located in the DMV area and able to participate in in-office collaboration.
  • Bonus qualifications include experience in innovation, R&D, labs, exploratory engineering, cloud model deployment, inference at scale, MLOps, model monitoring, ML CI/CD, experiment tracking, architecture discussions, or technical strategy.
  • Certain roles may require U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal background investigation or security clearance.

Benefits

  • Hybrid/remote work with fully remote benefits stated; candidates must be located in the DMV area and participate in in-office collaboration.
  • Annual stipend.
  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Company Match 401(k) plan.
  • Flexible PTO and paid holidays.

Tech Stack

Apache SparkPandasPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSQLTensorFlow
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