Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Company Description Govini transforms Defense Acquisition from an outdated manual process to a software-driven strategic advantage for the United States. Our flagship product, Ark, supports Supply Chain, Science and Technology, Production, Sustainment, Logistics, and Modernization teams with AI-enabled Applications and best-in-class data to more rapidly imagine, develop, and field the capabilities we need. Today, the national security community and every branch of the military rely on Govini to enable faster and more informed Acquisition decisions. Job Description We are seeking a Natural Language Processing expert to join our team and help us build cutting-edge machine learning technology that will replace complex, time-consuming, manual processes with automation and intelligence that helps Govini end-users make scientific and analytical decisions. We're looking for world-class talent to join our team where you will have the opportunity to help develop a wide range of solutions that transform natural language data into useful features for classification algorithms, as well as implement the latest technology to improve user search functionality.    In order to do this job well, you must be a curious and eager problem solver with a hunger for building well-designed models and solving problems in an ambiguous space. You share our intolerance of mediocrity. You’re uber-smart, challenged by figuring things out and producing simple solutions to complex problems. Knowing there are always multiple answers to a problem, you know how to engage in a constructive dialogue to find the best path forward. You’re scrappy. We like scrappy.    This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.    This role may require up to 10% travel Scope of Responsibilities Inform and implement the design and development of NLP applications to enhance the intelligence and efficiency of our data analytics software-as-a-service platform Review, verify, and aggregate the most appropriate annotated datasets for the best-supervised learning methods Ability to work with taxonomy experts to create and validate dataset annotation Use well-formed and effective text representation to change and adapt natural language documents into user-friendly features implement the latest technology to improve user search functionality as well as integrate state of the art LLM models into our Ark.ai platform to enhance user experience. Develop new algorithms and modeling techniques and conduct sound experiments to verify model results and integrate models into the live production system Establish meaningful criteria for evaluating algorithm performance and suitabilityImplement working, scalable, production-ready models and code Keep up to date with Machine Learning best practices and evolving open-source frameworks Regularly seek out innovation and continuous improvement, finding efficiency in all assigned tasks Collaborate closely with fellow taxonomists, software engineers, data scientists, data engineers, and QA engineers Qualifications U.S