Senior AI/ML Engineer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employees. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is searching for a Senior AI/ML Engineer who is able to work in the Washington, DC area.
The Senior AI/ML Engineer will design, build, and scale machine learning solutions that drive business value. In this role, you will collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to productionize predictive models, develop robust AI/ML platforms, and deploy solutions in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate brings strong coding expertise in Python, R, or Java, a deep understanding of machine learning frameworks and data pipelines, and a proven ability to translate complex analytics into actionable insights for non-technical audiences.

 Duties & Responsibilities:

• Builds out AI/ML capabilities in conjunction with data scientists and other key stakeholders to drive business value.
• Productionizes and operationalizes predictive models leveraging machine learning and advanced data analysis techniques.
• Designs and builds data science platforms and model deployment pipelines to scale AI/ML engines in a cloud environment.
• Delivers well-styled, well-tested, and maintainable code in Python, R or Java.
• Cultivates innovation by proactively proposing new ideas to deliver business value more effectively.
• Identifies the right combination of tools and frameworks to turn a business problem into an analytics solution.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computational Statistics, Data Science, or related technical field or equivalent; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 6+ year’s work experience in Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Strong experience rapidly deploying AI/ML solutions to production in a DevOps environment. Expertise in building machine learning platforms and data pipelines at scale.
• Strong coding fluency in Python, R, or Java. Experience with Kubeflow, Airflow or other workflows and Docker containerization. Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Spark).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to articulate workflows and ability to describe the logic and implications of a complex model to non-technical audiences.
• Strong data analytical skills. Familiar with major machine learning algorithms.
• Solid experience managing diverse data sources, including preprocessing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data to develop data marts for data science use cases and machine learning applications.
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to work independently as well as in a team and a highly matrixed environment.

Preferred:

• Experience in cloud computing platforms. Google Cloud Platform preferred.
• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining preferred.
• Applicable certifications preferred.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.