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Adelphi

Senior ML Engineer

AI summary of the role

Forward-deployed Senior ML Engineer role at a seed-stage national security AI company, owning end-to-end delivery of agentic full-stack systems on frontier models for defense and intelligence customers.

What you’ll do

  • Own end-to-end delivery of agentic, full-stack systems from first prototype to stable production, embedded with defense and intelligence customers.
  • Build and deploy ML services leveraging LLMs, embeddings, RAG, and agent orchestration into production, including classified and air-gapped environments.
  • Work directly with customers to scope problems, sequence delivery, and ship novel AI applications under real-world constraints.
  • Codify repeatable patterns into reusable tools and building blocks to accelerate team delivery.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience in defense or intelligence fields required.
  • Hands-on with modern agent frameworks and SDKs (LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, AutoGen, or similar) and agent evaluation/observability tooling.
  • Familiarity with MCP or similar LLM integration frameworks.
  • Proficiency in AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) and prompt-engineering across the development lifecycle.

Technologies

LLM · LangGraph · OpenAI Agents SDK · Claude Agent SDK · AutoGen · MCP · RAG · Docker · Kubernetes · AWS

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