Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer

General Information

Requisition

#688

Locations

USA-VA-Chantilly

Posting Date

04/28/2026

Security Clearance Required

- TS/SCI + CI Poly

Remote Type

N/A

Time Type

Full time

Description & Requirements

Elder Research Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of MANTECH international Corporation seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Machine Learning Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Build and deploy AI agents to both automate and optimize labor intensive workflows, as well as empowering the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilities.
• Support program with R&D and customer-facing goals, to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into impact on contract.
• Create software to support AI agent communication, connecting models and agents to external services via API calls, testing and debugging tasks, deploying into target environments, setting up monitoring, and ensuring reliable execution of agentic AI systems.
• Utilize a combination of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary commercial models.
• Develop novel approaches to securing agentic workflows and to evaluating the results for accuracy, performance, and impact.
• Ensure AI systems adhere to ethical guidelines, transparency, and fairness principles.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic search.

Minimum Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Familiarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux)
• Familiarity with developing & managin...