Staff Applied ML Engineer, Federal/National Security
$180,000–$240,000Remote, hiring in Washington, DCStaff
View posting at Red Cell PartnersAbout the job
Staff Applied ML Engineer responsible for building and deploying production AI systems for federal and national security missions across LLMs, agents, retrieval, evaluation, fine-tuning, and inference.
Summary written from the posting.
What you’ll do
- Build production LLM applications, AI agents, and agentic workflows
- Own model evaluation, fine-tuning, adaptation, and experimentation pipelines
- Develop retrieval, context, and rigorous evaluation systems for mission data
- Optimize and deploy models for production environments
What you’ll bring
- Significant experience building and deploying ML or AI systems in production
- Hands-on experience with modern LLMs and foundation models
- Deep expertise in multiple areas including fine-tuning, evaluation, RAG, agents, inference, embeddings, synthetic data, or AI reliability
- Ability to move between ML experimentation and production engineering
Technologies
LLMs · RAG · model fine-tuning · agentic systems · model evaluation · model serving · inference · embeddings · synthetic data · guardrails
About Red Cell Partners
Venture studio building and scaling technology companies in defense, healthcare, and cyber with operational support and co-founder partnership model.
Private Late · 100–200 people
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