Principal AI/ML Engineer (Large Language Model) (TS/SCI) {S}

ARKA Group L.P. is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military, intelligence community, and commercial space industry. The Principal AI/ML Engineer will support the development of AI/ML algorithms in various disciplines.

Requirements

• BS in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, or related fields.
• 10+ years of experience in software development or as a data scientist with 2+ years of building LLM applications using some of the following:
• Fine-tuning foundational models
• Steering Techniques (e.g Sparse auto encoders, representation tuning)
• Building adapters to use foundational models (e.g. PEFT, llama factory)
• Prompt engineering techniques / Inference time techniques (e.g. chain of thought, tree of thoughts, etc.)
• Using Retrieval Augmented Generation techniques to populate and query vector databases (e.g. Weaviate, pinecone)
• Using LLM Frameworks (e.g. LangChain, DSPy)
• Using AI APIs ( e.g AWS Bedrock, OpenAI)
• Using LLM deployment frameworks (eg llama.cpp, vllm, tgi)
• Developing UIs with ReAct
• Experience leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers and software developers and working with a program manager to define project scope and schedule to ensure we meet project milestones as defined by our customers
• Experience with Python and data science / machine learning libraries (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, Pandas, Polars, scikit-learn, etc.)
• Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/vision/dental insurance packages
• Company contributions to qualified HSA accounts
• 401k retirement plan with industry leading company contributions
• 3 weeks of vacation accrual per year plus time off for sick leave and unscheduled life events
• 13 paid holidays
• Upfront tuition assistance for approved degree programs
• Annual bonus program based on company and employee performance
• Company paid life insurance, AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term disability insurance
• 4 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Employee assistance program (EAP)