Machine Learning Engineer

Elder Research is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to architect and deploy AI agents, connect models and workflows, and uphold ethical and secure AI systems. This remote role sits at the crossroads of applied research and real-world impact, combining R&D with customer-facing goals to accelerate solutions into contract outcomes. The ideal candidate will work with a mix of open-source models, agentic tools, and large proprietary models to advance agent-driven workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents to automate and optimize labor-intensive workflows, while enabling the human workforce to discover entirely new capabilities.
• Support the program with R&D and customer-facing goals to speed the transition of novel applied research and solutions development into contract impact.
• Develop 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.
• Demonstrate solid hands-on experience with generative AI models including prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning, and NLP tasks such as entity extraction, summarization, and semantic search.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government Security Clearance at the TS/SCI level with CI polygraph.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with Javascript, Containerization (Docker/ Rocky Linux).
• Familiarity with developing & managing API endpoints (Rest and FastAPI).
• Familiarity with developing agenticAI workflows/systems.
• Langchain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, Pydontic.
• UVicorn (webserver) and Streamlit (web apps).

Technologies

• Python
• SQL
• Javascript
• Docker
• Rocky Linux
• Rest
• FastAPI
• Langchain
• LangGraph
• OpenAI Agents
• Pydontic
• UVicorn
• Streamlit
• AWS Cloud

General Information

• Requisition #728
• Locations USA-VA-Chantilly
• Posting Date 07/24/2026
• Security Clearance Required - TS/SCI + CI Poly
• Remote Type N/A
• Time Type Full time

Physical Requirements

The person in this position must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time. Occasional movement within the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers via email, phone, or virtual meetings, which may involve delivering presentations.

About Elder Research

People Centered. Data Driven.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Multi-agent orchestration
• Familiarity with Cybersecurity (Mandiant)
• AWS Cloud experience
• Experience with Graph Analysis
• Security Plus