About this role
Develop and deploy vision-language models for overhead imagery within classified government networks; own end-to-end ML lifecycle from data preparation to delivering models.
Key Responsibilities
- Run data conversion pipelines to transform customer data into model training structure
- Perform EDA
- Train VLMs on overhead imagery
- Develop and implement hyper-parameter optimization strategies
- Test and evaluate models and analyze results
Technical Overview
Role focuses on fine-tuning Vision Language Models, data conversion, EDA, hyperparameter optimization, and packaging models for a Python-based codebase on Linux with GitLab; requires TS clearance.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a mid-level ML engineer with 3+ years of SQL/Python experience, active Top Secret clearance, and hands-on experience fine-tuning Vision Language Models on overhead imagery in a government context.
Must-Have Skills
3+ years of data querying languages (SQL) and scripting languages (Python)3+ years ML/statistical modeling data analysisBachelor's degree or above in computer sciencemachine learningengineeringor related fieldsCurrentactive US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology companyExperience working on multi-teamcross-disciplinary projectsMaster's degree or above in computer sciencemachine learningengineeringor related fieldsKnowledge of LinuxPyTorchand Git workflows for computer vision requirementsExperience developing visual language models leveraging satellite imagery
Tools & Platforms
Jupyter NotebooksLinuxGitLabVisual Studio CodeGitPyTorch
Required Skills
SQLStructured Query LanguagePythonJupyter NotebooksLinuxGitLabVisual Studio CodeGitPyTorchExploratory Data Analysisdata pipelineshyperparameter optimizationfine-tuningVision Language ModelsVLMoverhead imagerysatellite imagerymachine learningML
Hard Skills
SQLStructured Query LanguagePythonJupyter NotebooksLinuxGitLabVisual Studio CodeGitPyTorchExploratory Data Analysisdata pipelineshyperparameter optimizationfine-tuningVision Language ModelsVLMsatellite imageryoverhead imagery
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationteamworkproblem solvingpresentation
Keywords for Your Resume
vision language modelsVLMoverhead imagerysatellite imagerymachine learningMLdata pipelinesEDAhyperparameter optimizationfine-tuningPythonSQLStructured Query LanguageLinuxJupyter NotebooksGitLabVisual Studio CodeGitPyTorchTop Secret clearanceUS citizengovernmentclassified networksmodel trainingproduction deploymentHyperparameter optimization
Deal Breakers
Must have active Top Secret clearance, US citizen, Eligibility to work in the US
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