Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Anno.ai is a mission-focused defense technology startup dedicated to accelerating the safe and effective development of next-generation autonomous systems. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will design, develop, test, document, deploy, and maintain production machine learning software to automate processes and streamline mission operations.

Responsibilities:

• Operationalize machine learning models by building and maintaining robust, scalable pipelines for training, evaluation, deployment, and lifecycle management across cloud, on-prem, and edge compute environments
• Work closely with autonomy researchers, software engineers, systems teams, and field operators to translate mission requirements into deployable ML capabilities
• Implement automated CI/CD workflows tailored to ML systems, ensuring repeatable experiments, reliable packaging, and continuous delivery of both up to date models and associated data pipelines
• Manage ML runtime infrastructure using containerization and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and incorporating model serving platforms (e.g., Seldon, KServe, BentoML)
• Develop monitoring systems to track model health, performance, data drift, system utilization, and mission relevance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/EFK stacks
• Ensure ML deployments meet defense, customer, and platform security requirements, with emphasis on data integrity, traceability, and operational reliability
• Evaluate and integrate emerging MLOps, distributed training, and edge inference technologies to enhance reproducibility, extensibility, scalability, and deployment speed of ML systems

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field (Master's preferred)
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, MLOps, or related roles
• Experience operationalizing ML systems at production scale, including model training, versioning, packaging, deployment, and monitoring
• Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow)
• Hands-on experience with MLOps frameworks and workflow tooling (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, DVC, BentoML)
• Experience deploying containerized ML services using Docker and orchestrating workloads using Kubernetes (including air-gapped or constrained deployments)
• Understanding of CI/CD workflows and DevOps practices applied to ML systems (e.g., Git, Code Review, Metrics Evaluation)
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
• Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Government security clearance (U.S. Citizenship required)
• Ability to travel up to 20%
• Experience with deploying models and associated runtimes to Edged Devices
• Experience optimizing models for memory and CPU constrained systems (e.g., embedded systems, microcontrollers)
• Prior experience supporting U.S. Department of War programs, cUAS systems, or mission-critical autonomous platforms
• Experience working with diverse or atypical data sources (e.g., Audio/Acoustics, RF signals, EO/IR imagery)
• Experience deploying and optimizing ML inference on edge or resource-limited compute systems
• Experience with Explainable/Auditable AI/ML tools and interpretable model design
• Experience with AI Software Development Tools (e.g., GitHub CoPilot, Claude)