Quartermaster AI

Quartermaster AI

Senior RF Machine Learning Engineer

Arlington, VA · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 168 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningRoboticsSignal ProcessingResearch

About the role

  • By leveraging cutting-edge AI and robotics, we unlock capabilities that were only recently impossible.
  • Our distributed open-ocean systems enable every vessel to sense, compute, and communicate, enhancing maritime domain awareness for those who need it most.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain dataset curation pipelines, including AIS-correlated ground truth labeling, synthetic RF data generation, and augmentation strategies for class-imbalanced maritime environments.
  • Build the interface between DSP feature outputs and model inputs by defining pre-processing, normalization, and feature extraction requirements in coordination with the DSP engineer.
  • Develop model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking harnesses
  • define quantitative performance criteria and drive iterative improvement against them.
  • Optimize models and inference workflows for deployment on edge compute hardware.
  • Document model architecture, training methodology, dataset provenance, and validation results.
  • Develop model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking harnesses; define quantitative performance criteria and drive iterative improvement against them.
  • You'll work in a small team of experienced engineers to build detection, classification, and tagging models that help provide contextual understanding of vessel activity based on observed RF signatures.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of signal alignment, temporal synchronization, and feature extraction from IQ and spectral data.
  • Proven ability to ship production models, not just research prototypes.
  • Experience in maritime, aerospace, or operationally demanding spectral environments.
  • Familiarity with edge inference constraints and optimization techniques (quantization, pruning, model distillation).
  • Active Secret clearance or demonstrated ability to obtain one.
  • Master's or PhD in Machine Learning, Signal Processing, or a closely related field - or equivalent demonstrated experience.
  • 5+ years building and deploying ML systems with a focus on RF or signals data.
  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks; familiarity with RF-native tooling such as Torchsig is a strong plus.
  • Experience building labeled RF datasets from ground truth sources.

Nice to have

  • familiarity with RF-native tooling such as Torchsig is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Design, train, and deploy machine learning models for RF signal detection, classification, and vessel activity tracking.
  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks
  • Quartermaster AI is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer with an emphasis in RF analysis to develop and deploy machine learning systems that utilize RF data for real-time maritime intelligence.

Company info

  • At Quartermaster AI, we believe the ocean should be a safe and sustainably managed resource for all. By leveraging cutting-edge AI and robotics, we unlock capabilities that were only recently impossible. Our distributed open-ocean systems enable every vessel to sense, compute, and communicate, enhancing maritime domain awareness for those who need it most.
  • At Quartermaster AI, we believe the ocean should be a safe and sustainably managed resource for all.

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