Jaxon is focused on making AI trustworthy for mission-critical environments, particularly for the Department of Defense. This role aims to advance machine learning capabilities to meet the rigor and reliability required for national security operations by increasing security and reliability for customers through implementing and building on DSAIL's capabilities, with an emphasis on addressing LLM limitations in context and logical reasoning.
Requirements
- Fluency in Python is essential.
- Python Data Science Stack - NumPy, Pandas, Scikit Learn, various deep learning and NLP libraries including demonstrable experience with libraries relevant to data manipulation.
- Langraph, LlamaIndex and/or other agentic libraries
- Docker, Docker Compose, K8s and related container orchestration technologies
- Hands-on experience running local LLMs using technologies such as Ollama and Transformers
- Have a comfort level building and training and/or fine-tuning models, not just calling cloud APIs, but you’re resourceful enough to recognize when you can use cloud APIs whenever you can get away with it.
- Have an understanding of both the fundamentals and applications of different NLP approaches.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to integrate ML models into our existing systems and workflows, enhancing product capabilities.
- Optimize Data Processing and Model Performance: Conduct comprehensive data management including preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Technical Proficiency with an NLP focus: Demonstrate solid machine learning engineering experience, particularly with NLP applications and unstructured data in a cloud environment.
- Understand Large Language Models: Intimately familiar with the model deployment process, optimization of LLM parameters for specific behaviors, and a general understanding of LLM functionality and use cases.
- building and training and/or fine-tuning models, not just calling cloud APIs
- digesting academic papers
- understanding of both the fundamentals and applications of different NLP approaches
Other
- Ability to context switch as needed
- Ability to communicate findings and recommendations clearly and constructively to peers, management, partners, and customers
- Ability to effectively explain highly technical details to less technically focused decision makers
- Ability to compartmentalize different projects with different goals
- We are looking for somebody who thrives in an environment where day-to-day priorities and tasks may rapidly change. The role is not a fit if you value "business as usual".
