# Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing. The Opportunity at Altana We're looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to lead the AI behind Altana Nexus, our agentic platform for global trade. You'll work on a continuous stream of public and proprietary trade data (shipments, customs filings, trade documents), and build the models and AI agents that turn it into real-time decisions on risk, compliance and enforcement for governments and the world's largest companies. Your Responsibilities Drive the technical direction for agentic systems. Define the architecture and roadmap for the models and agentic systems that process trade data as it arrives (shipments, customs declarations, invoices, bills of lading) and turn it into risk, classification and compliance decisions in real time. Build the pipeline from ingestion to decision. Lead the design of reliable, cost-efficient systems for ingestion, document understanding, entity resolution, inference and routing across models, at the scale of global trade. Adapt models to trade. Use

- **Id**: 3990338
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/altana-staff-machine-learning-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Brooklyn, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T21:10:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:12:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9806
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Hybrid work, Insurance coverage, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Supply Chain, Supply Chain AI

## Company

- **Id**: 63422
- **Name**: Altana
- **Domain**: altana.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/altana>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 86
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 205000
- **Max**: 240000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 240000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **DPO** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Polars** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **RLAIF** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Braintrust** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **FAISS** — Optional: yes
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **LangSmith** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **LLMOps** — Optional: yes
- **MLFlow** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **NLP** — Optional: yes
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: yes
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes
- **Swagger** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:12:34Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 86
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T01:10:54Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 240000
- **Is top pay**: no

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