Salary
$220k – $292k per year
Location
In office (Costa Mesa)
Seniority
Senior · 10+ years exp
Employment
Full-Time
First seen by Alion on Oct 19, 2026.
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VDS Consulting Group, also known as Value Driven Solutions, is a leading global management consulting firm specializing in helping businesses achieve world-class performance. With a focus on continuous improvement, they offer a range of custom solutions to drive growth and optimize operations. Their services include lean consulting, interim staffing, and employee training, all designed to enhance business processes and improve shareholder value. Whether you're seeking rapid improvements or long-term strategic initiatives, VDS Consulting Group can deliver substantial gains in profitability and working capital. Their expertise spans various industries, including aerospace & defense, food & beverage, industrial & manufacturing, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & medical devices, private equity, procurement, semiconductor & electronics, specialty chemicals, and supply chain & operations. At VDS Consulting Group, they follow the Value Driven Approach®, which involves conducting a diagnostic of current performance, proposing improvement opportunities, developing a roadmap, addressing talent needs, and ensuring committed delivery with measurable outcomes. Trusted by global leaders, VDS Consulti
Type: Direct hire, full-time · Base: $220,000-$292,000 + equity · Clearance: U.S. Person required (export control); Secret clearance preferred
VDS is recruiting a senior ML engineer to bring AI onto the factory floor of a maritime defense production division. You will build the platform that turns inspection, root-cause and document problems into working AI tools.
What you'll do
- Design and run the end-to-end ML platform, from training to deployment.
- Build model serving for cloud, edge devices and the shop floor.
- Turn factory problems into AI workflows with human review built in.
- Integrate with PLM, MES and ERP systems.
- Set model governance and drift monitoring, and share on-call duty.
What you bring
- 8+ years building production software.
- A degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- MLOps, Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Docker and Kubernetes, time-series data, monitoring.
Nice to have
- Manufacturing or OT systems, computer vision or OCR.
- Airflow or Flyte, CUDA or TensorRT, retrieval-augmented generation.
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