Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government

Triumphant Nerd is searching for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Government to build and deploy personalized AI technology for our client's government programs.

We're looking for hands-on engineers with 5+ years of ML or applied AI experience who have shipped production models and built within secure government environments. You'll own model serving, retrieval pipelines, and evaluations, bringing advanced AI capabilities into Azure Government within an IL5 boundary.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of machine learning or applied AI experience, including ownership of models serving production traffic
• At least 1 year building in a U.S. government IL5 environment, with hands-on experience deploying ML or LLM systems at IL5 or above
• Deep experience with Azure OpenAI or similar hosted models, RAG, vector search, and model evaluations
• Hands-on ownership of model serving, versioning, fine-tuning, data privacy controls, and audit logging
• Strong experience with Azure-based AI platforms; AWS and GCP experience is a plus
• Experience taking a product or model from concept to production at a venture-backed startup or large technology company
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a STEM-related field
• U.S. citizenship required
• Ability to work onsite 5 days per week in Los Altos or our client's San Francisco office, occasional travel to DC
• Compensation: Up to $275K base salary, plus full benefits, perks, and strong equity

This is an opportunity to build AI systems that protect individual data while delivering real-world impact in secure, mission-critical environments.

Ready to bring advanced AI into production? Let's connect!