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We're executing a Mission that (1) Identifies the core bottlenecks in Warfighting, Intelligence and the Enterprise, (2) Assigns top talent with backgrounds in systems and machine learning engineering, and (3) Finds repeatability in solution development to target similar offices across the DoW/IC. The business has 10x'd in under two years and has built trust with the senior most leaders at the Department of War and Intelligence Community.\nAbout the Role: The Forward Deployed Senior Machine Learning Engineer position requires a mix of software development, LLM Ops, and secdevops practices, resulting in an exciting, fast-paced engineering role. This role requires the ability to provide solutions for the full LLM stack, from the OS, storage, and network up to the API and transport layer. Experience in the defense or intelligence fields is required. 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