Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Intelligence

Type: Direct hire, full-time

• Base: $220,000–$292,000 + equity
• Clearance: U.S. Person required (export control); Secret clearance preferred VDS is recruiting a senior ML engineer to bring AI onto the factory floor of a maritime defense production division. You will build the platform that turns inspection, root-cause and document problems into working AI tools.

What you'll do

Design and run the end-to-end ML platform, from training to deployment. Build model serving for cloud, edge devices and the shop floor. Turn factory problems into AI workflows with human review built in. Integrate with PLM, MES and ERP systems. Set model governance and drift monitoring, and share on-call duty. What you bring 8+ years building production software.

A degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience. MLOps, Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Docker and Kubernetes, time-series data, monitoring.

Nice to have

Manufacturing or OT systems, computer vision or OCR. Airflow or Flyte, CUDA or TensorRT, retrieval-augmented generation.