# Applied Machine Learning Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Washington, District of Columbia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Applied Machine Learning Engineer role is part of Anduril's Frontier AI team, which builds edge-compatible, generative AI systems into the Lattice software platform.

## Responsibilities

As an Applied Machine Learning Engineer, you will:

- Distill and fine-tune transformer architectures for deployment onto edge devices or compute-denied environments.

- Propose and prototype LLM-based Agentic systems that help solve real-world problems, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art techniques in the field.

- Develop and maintain mission-relevant benchmarks.

- Work cross-functionally with different business lines across Anduril to help discover and scope new research problems.

## Requirements

- BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

- 5+ years of experience developing and benchmarking ML algorithms.

- Experience pushing and maintaining ML algorithms in production.

- Strong Python skills with experience in ML frameworks such as PyTorch.

- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience fine-tuning transformer-based models.

- Experience deploying deep-learning-based models to edge devices or air-gapped environments.

- Prior experience in defense tech or start-ups.

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $220,000-$292,000 USD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- ML algorithms
- Transformer architectures

### Nice to have
- Fine-tuning transformer-based models
- Deploying deep-learning-based models
- Defense tech
- Start-ups

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