Machine Learning Engineer

Elder Research

Machine Learning Engineer developing and deploying AI agents to optimize workflows at Elder Research. Supporting customer-facing R&D goals with a focus on ethical AI practices and transparency.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeChantilly • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCyber SecurityDockerJavaScriptLinuxPythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.
Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelors degree
Proficiency in Python and SQL
Familiarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux)
Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI)
Experience with developing agenticAI workflows/systems Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic UVicorn (webserver) Streamlit (web apps)
Familiarity with Multi-agent orchestration
Familiarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)
AWS Cloud experience
Experience with Graph Analysis

Benefits

Comp & perks

Elder Research considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to disability or veteran status or any other status protected under any federal, state, or local law or regulation.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with Elder Research, please email us at careers@elderresearch.com and provide your name and contact information.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLJavaScriptDockerRocky LinuxAPI developmentLangchainLangGraphOpenAI AgentsGraph Analysis

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcritical thinkingadaptability

Certifications

U.S. Government Security Clearance (TS/SCI level with CI polygraph)