i3, LLC
AI

AI/ML Engineer

i3, LLC · Bethesda, MD

Actively hiring Posted 3 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Build & Ship Production Models
  • Implement and productionize ML solutions (supervised/unsupervised, NLP, deep learning) with robust data preprocessing, feature engineering, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Support model selection, training, validation, optimization, and calibration, ensuring reliability, fairness, and performance at scale.
  • Own the MLOps Lifecycle (Azure)
  • Establish MLOps workflows (CI/CD for ML, experiment tracking, model registry, reproducible builds and deployments).
  • Implement model monitoring (drift, data/feature quality, bias, and business KPIs), alerting, and automated rollback to keep systems safe and responsive.
  • Data Engineering for ML
  • Design high-quality data pipelines (ingest, transform, validate) across structured and unstructured sources; enforce data contracts and lineage.
  • Partner with analytics teams to make datasets discoverable, documented, and performant for iterative model development.
  • AI Agents & Copilot Integration
  • Build AI agents that operationalize safety analytics (Copilot Studio, Python agents, retrieval pipelines) to accelerate triage and decision flow.
  • Integrate agents with APIs, event streams, dashboards, and case management systems to reduce cycle time from signal to action.
  • Engineering Excellence & Governance
  • Champion secure-by-design practices, reproducibility, and auditability (model cards, data sheets, deployment records).
  • Contribute to coding standards, code reviews, and knowledge sharing; mentor engineers and data scientists.
  • Agile Collaboration & Impact
  • Work in Agile teams; drive iterative delivery, joint problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
  • Translate mission goals into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes tied to Sentinel time-to-intervention targets.

Basic qualifications

  • Experience: 3+ years handson developing and deploying AI/ML models in production environments.
  • Programming: Proficient in Python (including packaging, testing, performance optimization).
  • ML Expertise: Understanding of algorithms, model selection, training/validation/optimization, and evaluation at scale.
  • Data Skills: Proficient in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and data visualization for decision support.
  • Deep Learning & MLOps: Proficient with PyTorch/TensorFlow, and modern MLOps (deployment, monitoring, scaling, CI/CD, experiment tracking, model registry).
  • Cloud: Experience with Azure for AI/ML workloads (e.g., Azure ML, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake).
  • AI Agents: Experience developing AI agents in Copilot Studio and via Python frameworks (tooling, orchestration, retrieval, connectors).
  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, related field, OR equivalent professional experience.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures (Event Hubs), feature stores, and vector databases (for retrieval augmented generation).
  • Hands-on with responsible AI (fairness, explainability, privacy), model governance (model cards, audits), and security in cloud ML.
  • Familiarity with domain-specific risk analytics and public sector/regulated environments.
  • Certifications in Azure AI/ML and/or MLOps advantageous.

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