Washington, United States
Machine Learning Engineer
Accenture Federal Services · Washington · United States
Posted: 10/16/2026 · Last checked: 10/16/2026
Job description
Quoted in full from Accenture Federal Services's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.
At Accenture Federal Services (AFS), we use machine learning to solve high‑impact, mission‑critical problems across defense, national security, public safety, and federal civilian sectors. Our 13,000+ colleagues deliver production‑grade AI systems where reliability, traceability, and responsible use are non‑negotiable.
As part of our ML Engineering community, you’ll design, build, and deploy models that operate at federal scale improving outcomes for millions of people. You’ll grow through hands‑on delivery, certifications, and access to the latest tooling and training. We ship in weeks, not quarters, and we measure success through model performance, reliability, safety, and cost efficiency.
Confidentiality matters: We don’t share mission or customer specifics in public postings. If you advance, we’ll provide program‑level details as appropriate during the interview process.
The work:
- Develop MLOps frameworks and workflows for a variety of domains and applications
- Build, train, deploy, and maintain machine learning models in production environments.
- Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines, including data ingestion, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Implement MLOps frameworks and best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, model registries, feature stores, and automated retraining workflows. Deploy, monitor, and optimize machine learning solutions using cloud platforms and containerized technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, SageMaker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML. And the last one.
- Collaborate across engineering and data teams to integrate scalable ML solutions into mission-critical applications while monitoring performance and addressing model drift.
Here’s what you need:
- Hands-on experience building, training, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with one or more machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost or Hugging Face.
- Experience developing and maintaining end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience with MLOps practices and tools, including model versioning, CI/CD pipelines, model registries, feature stores, model monitoring, and automated retraining workflows.
- Experience deploying machine learning models using cloud native or containerized technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon SageMaker, Google Vertex, AI or Azure Machine Learning.
- Experience monitoring production machine learning systems, troubleshooting model performance issues, and addressing model drift.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen (No Dual citizenship)
Bonus points if you have:
- Advanced Degree in computer science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) related field, with Ph.D. preferred, but not required
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
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