Build and operate end-to-end machine learning platforms for maritime defense manufacturing. Responsibilities include training and deployment, model serving across cloud, edge, and factory environments, AI workflow development with human review, PLM/MES/ERP integration, governance, drift monitoring, and on-call support.
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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