Principal AI/ML Engineer (Large Language Model)

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Job Title: Principal AI/ML Engineer (Large Language Model) Job Category: Science: Time Type: Full time: Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type: Regular: Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Local: Anticipated Posting End: 7/31/2026: The Opportunity: The Principal AI/ML Engineer will support the development of AI/ML algorithms in a multitude of disciplines from object detection/classification, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and large language models. Responsibilities: Qualifications: Required: Desired: - Lead and mentor a multidisciplined team consisting of developers and researchers to implement machine learning algorithms to solve a broad set of challenges for our various customers - Apply Large Language Models (LLMs) to a variety of applications within remote sensing such as tasking collections, identifying gaps in collection plans, analyzing patterns of life, and more. - Fine tune foundation models and building adaptors for new applications (llama factory, PEFT) - Apply retrieval augmented generation (RAG) techniques to data to populate and query vector databases (e.g. Weaviate) - Build custom applications with LLM fra...