Vannevar Labs needs a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build and scale their core agent platform for AI-native applications, addressing the need for rapid decision-making in critical missions for the DoD.
Requirements
- Deep and current knowledge of AI capabilities and emerging trends.
- A track record of shipping high impact AI-enabled applications
- Experience building AI/ML platforms
- Experience with backend and infrastructure
- Experience with evaluations at scale, human-in-the-loop tooling, guardrails, and fine-tuning pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale our Agentic AI Platform. Own the backend, infrastructure, and AI/ML platform powering the next generation of AI for the DoD.
- Build the right systems, patterns, and solutions to help move from prototype to production including evaluations at scale, human-in-the-loop tooling, guardrails, and fine-tuning pipelines.
- Pushing the state-of-the-art on fine-tuning for custom agent workflows.
- Democratize agent building.
- Work with designers on the UX patterns for how a user interacts with the agent
- Work with frontend engineers to bring those designs to life
- Work with platform engineers to get access to the most valuable data
Other
- Technical leadership on making the right decisions, setting direction, and delivering outcomes
- An excitement to work with other engineers to make them successful in building their products
- Bias towards achieving outcomes, including willingness to step outside your immediate role to ensure mission success.
- Ability to work autonomously and set your own goals.
- Ability to learn quickly.
- Grit and creativity to keep going when faced with a roadblock.
- Active TS / SCI Clearance is a plus but not needed.
