About this opportunity
Stott and May lists this Senior Machine Learning Engineer ( TS/TS/SCI Clearance) opportunity in mclean, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
🚨Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineers 🚨
Active U.S. Secret clearance required to be considered for this role
Working on a high-impact opportunity with a VC-backed start up building A I systems used in real-world national security environments.
You’ll be building and shipping production LLM systems that operate in secure, mission-critical settings.
What you’ll be doing:
Designing and deploying LLM systems (RAG, embeddings, vector search)
Building APIs and backend services for AI-powered applications
Working across the full stack from data pipelines to inference
Shipping systems into secure, sometimes air-gapped environments
🧠What they’re looking for:
Strong backend engineering skills (Python and/or JavaScript)
Experience deploying ML systems into production
Hands-on with LLMs, vector databases, or agentic workflows
Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment
Requirements:
Active U.S. Secret clearance (TS/SCI preferred)
U.S. Citizenship required
No Sponsorship provided
Location: Washington DC OR Mclean Virginia
Excellent Salary+ meaningful equity
Worksite address
mclean, VA, 22107, US
Who can apply
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