Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Intelligence
VDS Consulting Group Costa Mesa, California, United States · $220K–$292K/yr
Business Consulting and Services · 11-50 employees
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About the role
Design and manage the end-to-end machine learning platform from training to deployment across cloud and edge devices. Integrate AI workflows with factory systems including PLM, MES, and ERP while ensuring model governance and monitoring.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of experience in production software development and a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. Proficiency in MLOps, Python, and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes is essential.
Benefits
Full description
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.
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