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Job Summary:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning pipelines and tools that enhance tracking intelligence capabilities for airborne threat detection.
Responsibilities:
• Own tracking intelligence infrastructure end-to-end: Build the platform for ingesting tracking algorithm telemetry (hypotheses, scores, gains, association decisions), feature engineering performance metrics, training analysis models, and deploying them into production
• Automate tracking analysis: Develop ML models that identify correlation failures, track quality degradation, and root causes for tracking anomalies—replacing manual deep-dive investigations with scalable automated insights
• Build autotuning capabilities: Create systems that recognize incoming data characteristics and automatically adjust tracking algorithm parameters, frame rates, and model configurations for optimal performance
• Design human-in-the-loop tools: Build interfaces and query services that let engineers ask natural questions about tracking behavior and get data-driven answers backed by your models
• Exploit tracking telemetry: Instrument C++ tracking algorithms with appropriate logging (working with platform engineers), then marshal that data into consistent formats for analysis and model training
• Deploy in constrained environments: Package and deploy models for air-gapped systems with no external connectivity, following security scanning requirements where ML models are treated as data artifacts
• Manage the ML lifecycle: Handle data catalogs, ground truth labeling, model registries, versioning, and validation—ensuring models improve tracking performance in measurable ways
• Bridge domains: Translate between tracking algorithm fundamentals (Kalman filters, data association, multi-hypothesis tracking) and ML/data science techniques to build solutions that actually work
• Drive make/build decisions: Evaluate when to build custom models vs. leverage existing ML capabilities, selecting appropriate algorithm architectures for tracking intelligence problems
• Work hands-on-keyboard: This is a one-person show initially—you'll architect, code, deploy, and iterate rapidly using modern Python-based ML tooling
Qualifications:
Required:
• 3+ years of experience with a strong mix of ML engineering and data science—you've built models AND deployed them into production systems
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn)
• Experience with MLOps practices: data pipelines, feature engineering, model versioning, experiment tracking, and deployment workflows
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure tooling (MLflow, Dagster/Airflow, or similar orchestration tools)
• Understanding of tracking, estimation, or filtering algorithms (Kalman filters, data association techniques)—you need to understand what tracking algorithms output and why they make the decisions they do
• Ability to work with streaming time-series data and engineer features from algorithm telemetry
• Experience building data catalogs, managing ground truth labels, and validating model performance
• Strong software engineering fundamentals—you can build maintainable, production-quality code independently
• Comfortable working in C++ environments enough to add instrumentation/logging (no deep algorithm development required)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret SCI security clearance
Preferred:
• Experience deploying ML models in edge, embedded, or air-gapped environments with security constraints
• Background in defense, aerospace, or sensor systems
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) for model serving and deployment
• Experience with anomaly detection, root cause analysis, or automated diagnostics systems
• Knowledge of AutoML, hyperparameter tuning, or online learning techniques
• Understanding of radar systems, sensor fusion, or signal processing
• Experience building conversational or query interfaces for technical systems
• Familiarity with model registries and model-as-data artifact management
• Experience with distributed data processing (Spark, Dask) for large-scale telemetry analysis
• Formal coursework or training in MLOps, data science, or estimation theory
• Active U.S. Top Secret SCI clearance
Company:
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that specializes in developing advanced autonomous systems to enhance national security. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Costa Mesa, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.