Annapolis Junction, United States
Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer 3
Captivation Software · Annapolis Junction · United States
- Salary
- $130,000–$270,000 per year
- Occupation
- Data Scientist
Posted: 11/4/2026 · Last checked: 11/10/2026
Job description
Quoted in full from Captivation Software's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.
Captivation has built a reputation on providing customers exactly what is needed in a timely manner. Our team of engineers take pride in what they develop and constantly innovate to provide the best solution. Captivation is looking for software developers who can get stuff done while making a difference in support of the mission to protect our country.
Captivation Software is looking for a senior level AI/ML engineer who will be responsible for designing, creating, testing, and productizing AI/ML algorithms to solve business challenges
Responsibilities
- Select appropriate data sets
- Perform statistical analysis
- Run machine learning algorithms
- Use results to improve models
- Train and retrain systems when needed
- Experience in working with various ML libraries and packages
- Run standard test and evaluation protocols
- Provide system integration oversight
- Oversee Test and evaluation of AI and ML algorithms through an iterative design process to meet verification and validation requirements
- Research and implement a broad range of AI and ML algorithms and tools
- Design or Select appropriate data and knowledge representation methods
- Recognize software architecture, data modelling, and data structures
- Transform and convert data science prototypes into scalable solutions
- Verify data and model output quality
- Identify differences in data distribution that affect model performance
- Develop criteria for test and evaluation to include explainability and resiliency
- Deep understanding of AI logic, semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation
- Demonstrated ability to design, evaluate, and productize AI/ML models on a range of commercial cloud-based architectures
- Design ML algorithms according to customer requirements
- Research, experiment with, and implement suitable ML algorithms and tools
- Broaden current AIML frameworks and machine learning libraries
Requirements
Security Clearance:
- Must currently hold a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with a favorable Polygraph, therefore all candidates must be a U.S. citizen
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10 years experience deploying machine learning algorithms is required.
- A Master's or Ph.D. degree in advanced math, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science or deep learning from an accredited college or university is required.
- 7 additional years machine learning experience with a relevant Bachelor's degree may be substituted for a Master's degree.
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated abilities in software engineering and AI/ML model test and evaluation.
This position is open for direct hires only. We will not consider candidates from third party staffing/recruiting firms.
- Annual Salary: $130,000 - $270,000 (Depends on the Years of Experience)
- Up to 20% 401k contribution (No Matching Required and Vested from Day 1)
- Above Market Hourly Rates
- $3,600 HSA Contribution
- 6 Weeks Paid Time Off
- Company Paid Employee Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance/Life Insurance/Short-Term & Long-Term Disability/AD&D
From Gavroche data
Figures computed from live adverts on Gavroche; the job text above is the employer's.
Similar roles in Annapolis Junction
- AI Engineer Mid level · ELEVI Associates, Annapolis Junction
- Data Scientist 3 - MLOps · Captivation Software, Annapolis Junction
- Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer 1 - C++/Marian/Java/AWS/PyTorch/Python · Captivation Software, Annapolis Junction
- Data Scientist 3 · GRVTY, Annapolis Junction
- Data Scientist 2 · GRVTY, Annapolis Junction
- Data Scientist · Accenture Federal Services, Annapolis Junction
200 open roles like this one; at most three per employer shown.
What data scientist adverts in the United States state
Middle half: 175,000 – 248,288 USD a year; median 205,000 USD.
From 378 adverts by 152 employers that state a salary, annualised.
How data scientist roles in the United States are worked
5% fully remote · 2% hybrid · 93% do not say
Of 201 adverts. An advert that does not state a work mode is counted as not saying, not as on-site.
Other roles at Captivation Software
- Software Integration Engineer 4 - Linux/Bash/Python/Docker/Kubernetes/Helm · Annapolis Junction
- Systems Engineer 1 - Linux/Bash/Python/STE/STN/Cisco/Docker · Annapolis Junction
- Software Integration Engineer 3 - DevOps · Annapolis Junction
- Data Scientist 3 - MLOps · Annapolis Junction
- Test Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/HPC/Gitlab/CI/CD/Docker · Annapolis Junction
- Software Integration Engineer 3 - Linux/Bash/Python/Java/Ansible/Gitlab/CI/CD · Annapolis Junction
77 open.