Type: Direct hire, full-time •
Base: $166,000-$220,000 + equity •
Clearance: U.S. Person required; Top Secret eligibility desirable
VDS is recruiting an ML infrastructure engineer to build the training and data platform behind autonomous perception systems used across a defense-technology company.
What you'll do- Build and run training and dataset infrastructure, including multi-sensor data indexing.
- Improve tools and SDKs used by perception engineers.
- Use frontier models for data curation, labeling, synthetic data and search.
- Track training jobs, evaluations and model versions.
- Partner with engineering teams in each business line.
What you bring- Strong modern Python; some Rust (PyO3) is a plus.
- Distributed training in TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Kubernetes and workflow orchestration (Flyte, Airflow or Dagster).
Nice to have- Experiment tracking with Weights & Biases or MLflow.
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Core Development (Verify)Type: Direct hire, full-time •
Base: [confirm range] + equity •
Clearance: [confirm; U.S. Person likely]
VDS is recruiting a senior ML engineer to build core machine-learning capabilities shared across a defense-technology company's autonomy products.
What you'll do- Develop and ship models used across multiple product lines.
- Build reusable ML components, pipelines and evaluation tools.
- Work with autonomy, perception and platform teams.
What you bring- [confirm years] years of production ML engineering.
- Python and PyTorch or TensorFlow; experience deploying models at scale.
