Raft Company Website

Raft Company Website

AI/ML Engineer

Rome, NY

No sponsorship$170k-$220kDetected 14 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsKubernetesPlatform EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchLLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • As an AI/ML Engineer embedded in Rome, NY, you will work directly on model development efforts while leveraging and extending [R]AIMS platform capabilities to accelerate experimentation, evaluation, deployment, and operational transition.
  • You will work closely with platform engineers, AI leadership, and mission stakeholders to move models from experimentation through production.
  • The work sits at the intersection of applied machine learning, model training and evaluation, AI platform engineering, and operational AI deployment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain model training, fine-tuning, and benchmarking workflows that are reproducible, well-documented, and usable by teammates without hand-holding
  • Build and improve evaluation pipelines for repeatable, rigorous performance measurement across model architectures, datasets, and operational scenarios
  • Support experimentation across model architectures and datasets, maintaining clear records of results and surfacing actionable findings to AI leadership and mission stakeholders
  • 3 to 6 years of hands-on experience building and shipping production software or AI/ML systems
  • Experience building and managing model training pipelines and experimentation workflows at a level beyond tutorial projects

Requirements

  • Experience working with distributed systems or cloud-native environments
  • Ability to obtain Security+ certification within the first 90 days of employment
  • S. citizenship required
  • All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.

Nice to have

  • Experience fine-tuning foundation models, LLMs, or multimodal models for specific domain tasks or constrained operational environments
  • Experience with Kubernetes and containerized ML workloads, including deploying and debugging GPU-enabled inference services
  • Experience with distributed training or large-scale inference systems
  • Familiarity with streaming or event-driven architectures such as Kafka or Flink, particularly as they relate to real-time model inputs or outputs
  • Prior defense, national security, or government R&D experience, particularly with AFRL or Air Force programs
  • Experience working in prototype-to-production environments where research artifacts need to become operational systems
  • Active Secret or Top Secret clearance strongly preferred

Skills

  • Strong Python software engineering skills; writes clean, maintainable, production-quality code rather than notebook-only scripts
  • Experience working with distributed systems or cloud-native environments; comfortable in infrastructure that isn't fully managed for you
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce clear technical documentation, status updates, and evaluation summaries
  • Experience designing or operating model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking pipelines at scale

Compensation

  • $170k-$220k

Benefits

  • Demonstrated experience developing and evaluating machine learning models, with a clear understanding of what makes an evaluation rigorous versus misleading

Company info

  • Raft (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions. We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development. With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
  • Our flagship AI platform, [R]AIMS (Raft AI Mission System), enables operators and engineers to rapidly build, deploy, evaluate, and govern AI-powered mission workflows across highly dynamic operational environments. We are expanding our AI/ML presence in Rome, NY to support our customers and are looking for a hands-on AI/ML Engineer to contribute directly to model development, evaluation, and operational AI delivery.
  • Raft (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional defense tech company dedicated to empowering U.S. military and government agencies with cutting-edge AI/ML and data solutions.
  • We are a leader in autonomous data fusion and Agentic AI, with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development.
  • With headquarters in McLean, VA, our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem.
  • We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
  • Our flagship AI platform, [R]AIMS (Raft AI Mission System), enables operators and engineers to rapidly build, deploy, evaluate, and govern AI-powered mission workflows across highly dynamic operational environments.
  • We are expanding our AI/ML presence in Rome, NY to support our customers and are looking for a hands-on AI/ML Engineer to contribute directly to model development, evaluation, and operational AI delivery.
  • What we are looking for:

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