Senior Machine Learning Engineer — AI Solutions Lead

ASRC Federal Mission Solutions is a premier provider of systems engineering, software engineering, system integration and project management services for real-time, mission-critical defense systems. We are seeking an Expert Machine Learning Engineer to join our team in Moorestown, NJ.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, researches, and applies machine learning, deep learning, visual artificial intelligence algorithms and methods to data sets to produce models to be deployed in an operational aspect

• Develops hypotheses based on data analysis and trends, and compares real-time results with predictions to update and fine-tune algorithms

• Develops assessment methods to ensure production models are robust and reliable. Collaborates with different business units and stakeholders

• Develops, inspects, mines, transforms, and models data to raise productivity, improve decision making, and gain competitive advantage

• Conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis on data to generate insights and information to ensure correct predictive forecasting or classification

• Implementing emerging AI/ML technologies from commercial and academic domains to support military and government agencies with prediction, classification, and anomaly detection tasks

• Evaluating, visualizing, and performing statistical analysis on data sets including time-series, multi-modal, and textual data

• Developing appropriate model architectures, custom loss functions, and training deep neural networks including MLPs, CNNs, Transformers, and others as required

• Working with existing modeling and simulation (M&S) tools to develop data for new AI/ML models

• Recommends operational plans and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall functional results

• Serves as a Technical lead on large, complex projects

• Impacts functional strategy by developing new solutions, process, standards

• Responsible for improving upon existing processes and systems using significant conceptualizing, reasoning and interpretation

• Responsible for conducting briefings to senior leaders both within and outside of the job function

• Responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across ASRC Federal within technical area of expertise

• Responsible for leading large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the organization, involving large cross-functional teams (without direct reporting relationships)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 12-15 years of experience in a related or applicable field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a government clearance, U.S. Citizenship is required

• This position requires the successful applicant to obtain and maintain the required security clearance or other authorization(s) within the necessary timeframe required by applicable contract(s)

• Expert level knowledge of machine learning techniques including popular frameworks

• Extensive experience with LLM prompting and Transformer architecture

• Experience with unsupervised learning including clustering algorithms and manifold learning.

• Requires mastery of knowledge within multiple job areas typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience

• Viewed as an expert and/or resource within the field by peers within and outside ASRC Federal

• Requires sound business acumen and combines this with technical knowledge for holistic solutions

• Establishes operational plans for job area with short- to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1-2 years)

• Demonstrates leadership in technical innovation for ASRC Federal and Operating Groups in support of strategic goals and mission

• Proven ability to utilize extensive analysis to seek understanding problems

Proven ability to Communicate

• Ability to influence others to accept job function’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches

• Requires ability to communicate and influence senior executive leadership regarding matters of strategic importance to the organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with military simulators (e.g., AFSIM, JGTS, MAST)

• Strong writing and presentation skills are preferred

• Academic publication history