webAI
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Austin, TX · Senior · Contract
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Distributed SystemsVector DatabasesCloud PlatformsMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPComputer VisionRAGCybersecurityResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving
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About the role
- We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to support our Public Sector initiatives focused on building and optimizing production ready AI systems for secure and distributed environments.
- You will be responsible for transforming prototype models into scalable, efficient, and reliable production systems that operate seamlessly across a spectrum of hardware from government cloud infrastructure to edge devices in restricted or disconnected environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy agentic workflows to orchestrate multi-step reasoning, tool use, and decision-making across production systems.
- Implement model optimization techniques such as quantization, pruning, distillation, and hardware specific acceleration.
- Build and maintain Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including vector database integration for contextual retrieval.
- Optimize model execution for distributed and resource constrained environments, ensuring reliability under variable connectivity conditions.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in applied AI, ML engineering, or production AI systems.
- Deep proficiency in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Hugging Face Transformers.
- Proven experience deploying AI models across cloud, edge, and mobile hardware environments.
- Expertise in model compression and optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation).
- Familiarity with multi-modal models and synthetic data generation methods.
- Active US Security clearance
- Experience building RAG pipelines and integrating vector databases (e.g., Quadrant, ChromaDB, FAISS, Milvus, Pinecone).
- Strong algorithmic and problem solving skills, especially in distributed or constrained compute environments.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills:
Skills
- Experience with edge AI, federated learning, or offline inference systems.
- Understanding of AI governance and compliance frameworks relevant to public sector deployments.
- Experience integrating models into large scale distributed systems or microservice architectures.
- Excellent communication and technical documentation skills for collaboration across multi disciplinary teams.
- Strong understanding of GPU computing, CUDA, and performance profiling.
- Emphasizing transparency and honesty in every interaction and decision.
- Ownership
- Taking full responsibility for one's actions and decisions, demonstrating commitment to the success of our clients.
- Tenacity
- Persisting in the face of challenges and setbacks, continually striving for excellence and improvement.
- Humility
- Maintaining a respectful and learning-oriented mindset, acknowledging the strengths and contributions of others.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
Benefits
- We strive to provide competitive benefits to all employees.
- The benefits listed in this posting generally apply to U.S.-based employees.
- For employees hired outside the United States, benefits may vary based on local law, country-specific requirements, and the employment platform or entity through which the employee is hired.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- Including a high-deductible HSA option with company contribution
- Flexible PTO Policy
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Continuing education support
- Basic, company-paid life insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- Company-paid short and long term disability
- We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.
Company info
- We at webAI are committed to living out the core values we have put in place as the foundation on which we operate as a team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Active US Security clearance
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