Senior Machine Learning Engineer

TheIncLab, McLean, United States

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Published on 23 December 2025 · first appeared in our records on 20 September 2026.

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The Mission Starts Here TheIncLab engineers and delivers intelligent digital applications and platforms that revolutionize how our customers and mission-critical teams achieve success. We are where innovation meets purpose; and where your career can meet purpose as well.  We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to that will focus on researching, designing, training, and evaluating machine learning models to solve complex, real-world problems.  We encourage you to apply and take the first step in joining our dynamic and impactful company. Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will research, evaluate, and select appropriate machine Learning approaches and architectures based on the problem definition. What will you do? • Research, evaluate, and select appropriate machine learning approaches and architectures based on the problem definition • Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning • Neural networks, decision trees, ensemble methods • Transformer-based models, adversarial networks, genetic algorithms • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) where appropriate • Design and implement machine learning models using frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent • Formulate and solve optimization problems using ML techniques • Pathfinding and routing • Combinatorial and constraint-based optimization Heuristic and learning-based optimization approaches • Own data pipelines for ML systems • Data validation and quality checks • Feature engineering and preprocessing • Data augmentation strategies for training robustness • Train, tune, and debug models, addressing issues such as overfitting, instability, bias, and performance degradation • Define and apply appropriate evaluation metrics, analyze results and iteratively improve model performance • For transformer-based systems • Optimize context window usage Manage token budgets, chunking strategies, and retrieval mechanisms • Balance performance, accuracy, and computational cost • Integrate ML models and data pipelines into production systems • Make technical decisions and provide architectural guidance for ML systems • Document experiments, results, and design decisions using tools such as Git, Jira, and Confluence • Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices in ML development Stay current with emerging ML research, tools, and techniques • Ability to travel up to 20% Capabilities that will enable your success • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field • 7+ years of professional experience, including significant hands-on machine learning development • Strong understanding of machine learning theory and fundamentals • Model selection and evaluation • Bias/variance tradeoffs • Optimization and loss functions • Demonstrated experience training and evaluating models using frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow • Experience building and maintaining end-to-end ML pipelines • Strong programming skills in Python (additional languages are a plus) • Experience working with real-world, imperfect datasets • Ability to explain model behavior, tradeoffs, and limitations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Strong grasp of software engineering best practices and system design Preferred Qualifications • Experience with deep learning architectures (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) • Experience applying ML to optimization, planning, or decision-making problems • Familiarity with distributed training or large-scale data processing • Experience with experiment tracking tools (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases) • Experience deploying ML models into production (batch or real-time inference) Background in research-driven or R&D-focused engineering environments Clearance Requirements Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen and willing and eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance at the Secret or Top-Secret level. Existing clearance is preferred.

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