Senior AI/Machine Learning Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Hadoop, C Programming, C++, Data science techniques, Java Programming, Machine learning techniques, MapReduce, Python Programming, PyTorch, R Programming, Scala Programming, SQL, TensorFlow

Job Description

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience, with 5 years of professional experience; or 3 years of experience required with a related Master’s degree.
• Previous experience building machine learning models by way of work, projects, courses, etc.
• Previous experience in applying any of the following machine learning areas to business problems:natural language processing, deep learning, anomaly detection, reinforcement learning.

• Previous experience evaluating model performance, including performance metric selection.
• Previous experience with feature engineering and data cleaning/pre-processing.
• Experience with developing software and software engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated creativity and innovation in identifying valuable ways of incorporating machine learning into business workflows and processes.
• Superlative communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to stay updated on new technologies in the rapidly evolving field of AI.
• Must have strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in running data product projects from start to finish and interacting with end user customers.
• Experience with stakeholder communication and defining requirements
• Preferred languages: Python or R.
• Must be a US citizen

Executive Order

COVID-19 continues to significantly impact our employees, families and communities. With employee health and safety as our top priority, and as a federal contractor, Lockheed Martin is taking action to address the increased risk and uncertainty COVID variants pose in the workplace and ensuring we meet our commitments to national security.

To uphold safety for all employees, we will continue to request vaccination status for all Lockheed Martin employees including new hires. All current and newly hired employees who are unvaccinated will be required to adhere to onsite safety protocols.

Job Code/TitleE9853:A/AI Mch Learn Engnr Sr

Job Description

When it comes to using cutting-edge machine learning to tackle complex problems, Lockheed Martin is driven by a singular mission focus and desire to continuously innovate. Today’s challenges to global security aren’t just changing – they’re accelerating faster than ever before. Through our dedication to our mission, our AI-enabled systems are changing the way militaries operate and protect their forces, the way first responders fight fires, and how researchers explore the far reaches of space and the ocean’s depths.

The AimLabs Consulting Team is looking for a high energy individual with a strong background in machine learning and data science to help grow its business and streamline AI processes. The selected candidate will apply machine learning techniques in support of missions through Lockheed Martin programs and business functions. This role will have a particular focus on supporting the development of machine learning products by working with stakeholders to understand their business needs, translate them into data problems, and then set the direction of projects to solve those data problems. This individual must drive the work from prototype through to completion and delivery of a minimum viable product or final product so that the business users capture value from the work of the team.

The AimLabs Consulting Team’s mission includes serving as a center of excellence for AI at Lockheed Martin. The candidate will work to disseminate best practices of the AimLabs Consulting Team to other AI and data science teams in the corporation. The candidate will be required to create knowledge materials to publish these best practices, as well as meet with other data science leaders in Lockheed Martin to teach and discuss these practices.

The responsibilities of this position include collaboration with business stakeholders to identify business opportunities and requirements to develop associated analytical models that deliver useful, actionable recommendations, or which augment human capabilities in various work settings. The candidate is responsible for modeling complex business and engineering problems, discovering insights and deploying AI capabilities using machine learning and associated feature engineering techniques. Responsibilities also include tracking projects and driving work on them through to completion, as well as implementing best technical practices from the fields of machine learning and software engineering.

The candidate will need a combination of business focus, creative thinking, strong analytical and problem solving skills, and programming knowledge to be able to quickly cycle hypotheses through the discovery phase of the project. Excellent communications skills to understand the needs of the business, and to communicate the value of the models built back to the business.

Domestic travel will be required when travel resumes.

MUST BE A US CITIZEN.

Desired skills

• Expertise in natural language processing.
• Expertise applying deep learning, especially CNNs, RNNS, LSTMs, and reinforcement learning
• Experience with integration of data products into customer applications.
• Experience with or knowledge of data engineering.
• Experience with or knowledge of AWS.
• Experience with or expertise in manufacturing and/or engineering processes.
• Story-telling and data visualization.
• Experience with UI/UX and/or human-machine interaction.
• Experience with SQL, Hive, Spark.

Other Important Information

By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.