# Senior AI/ML Engineer

Ignite IT Hub is seeking a senior AI/ML Engineer to maintain and enhance the U.S. Census Bureau's LLM Autocoder, which assigns standardized codes to survey write-in responses. You will build and test model and software improvements for the American Community Survey (ACS), develop pilots for additional surveys and fields, and work with data scientists and MLOps engineers to integrate approved changes into production. Responsibilities Develop and maintain Python components for text preprocessing, model invocation, prompt management, structured output validation, and coding workflows. Implement approved changes to prompts, model configuration, dictionaries, rules, and supporting code in small, version-controlled increments. Build pilots using LLMs, fuzzy matching, direct-match dictionaries, or hybrid approaches; adapt implementations to survey-specific taxonomies and requirements. Write unit, integration, regression, negative, and edge-case tests, and work with the evaluation team to compare candidate results with approved baselines. Reproduce production problems, isolate causes across code, data, prompts, and model behavior, and implement verified corrections. Partner with the MLOps

- **Id**: 942379
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/igniteitservices-senior-aiml-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Suitland, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T01:07:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 55
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3062
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, Professional development, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation

## Company

- **Id**: 678736
- **Name**: Ignite IT Services
- **Domain**: igniteitservices.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/igniteitservices>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 137000
- **Max usd**: 263000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1332

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: yes
- **PyTorch** — Optional: yes
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 55

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T19:09:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 50
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.907
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:0, urgency, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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