Software Engineer (Machine Translation)TS/SCI with Poly)
About The Position
Take the next step in your career with Solerity. As a recognized leader in providing Information Technology, Engineering Services, Program Management, and Consulting Services to the U.S. Federal Government and Intelligence Community, we deliver innovative, mission-focused solutions supporting some of the nation’s most critical Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity missions. Solerity is seeking a Machine Translation to support advanced research, development, and prototyping of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions. This role focuses on machine translation technologies, large-scale data processing, and applied AI research to support SIGINT exploitation and cybersecurity analytics. The ideal candidate will be experienced in modern machine learning approaches, particularly transformer-based architectures, and will contribute to the development, evaluation, and enhancement of machine translation systems and AI-driven processing pipelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other STEM field.
- 11+ years of relevant experience in AI, machine learning, data science, or related technical disciplines.
- Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph (FSP) clearance required.
- Strong experience working in research and development environments.
- Hands-on experience with machine learning and machine translation technologies.
- Solid understanding of encoder-decoder transformer architectures.
- Experience with modern text processing pipelines and natural language processing systems.
- Understanding of text embeddings and vector-based representations.
- Knowledge of differences between transformer-based MT systems (e.g., Marian) and large language models.
- Ability to evaluate and compare machine translation architectures and approaches.
- Experience developing AI/ML solutions using Python and C/C++.
- Experience with Docker for containerized development and deployment.
- Ability to propose and implement improvements to AI/ML systems and workflows.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in Intelligence Community or SIGINT-focused environments.
- Strong research background in machine translation or natural language processing.
- Experience developing or fine-tuning transformer-based AI models.
- Experience with distributed computing or large-scale model training environments.
- Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience evaluating emerging AI/ML tools and technologies in production or research settings.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, analyze, and develop AI and machine learning solutions supporting SIGINT and cybersecurity data exploitation.
- Design, build, and evaluate research prototypes for machine translation and NLP-based applications.
- Work with large and complex datasets to develop scalable AI-driven analytical solutions.
- Apply advanced research and development techniques to solve complex AI/ML technical challenges.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of machine translation pipelines and text processing systems.
- Evaluate emerging tools, models, and techniques in machine translation and natural language processing.
- Analyze and improve encoder/decoder transformer architectures and related AI systems.
- Develop and optimize AI/ML workflows and processing pipelines for performance and accuracy.
- Support integration and deployment of AI solutions within secure operational environments.
- Build and maintain containerized applications using Docker for model deployment and testing.
- Collaborate with senior researchers and engineers to refine AI methodologies and solutions.
- Propose enhancements to machine translation systems and end-to-end data processing flows.
- Document research findings, methodologies, and technical implementations.
- Additional duties may be assigned.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Flexible work schedule to include onsite, hybrid or remote, as dictated by position
- 401(k) and company-funded life insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Tuition and training assistance
- Financial rewards for employee referrals.
- Pet insurance
- Employee discount program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
