Machine Learning Engineer — SKY WATCH Platform
Machine Learning Engineer — SKY WATCH Platform
Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid Remote Available)
Clearance Preferred: Secret (or eligibility to obtain)
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
Blue Sky Innovators is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, and deploy cutting-edge anomaly detection models for SKY WATCH — our next-generation, AI-driven, multi-sensor anomaly detection platform. SKY WATCH integrates real-time video analytics, BLE/RSSI detection, and audio transcript analysis to provide predictive alerting for operational security and critical infrastructure protection.
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be responsible for developing AI/ML models that detect anomalies in sensor and media data streams, integrating inference pipelines into production services, and continuously improving system performance. You will collaborate closely with Software Architects, DevOps Engineers, and Security teams to deploy robust, scalable, real-time ML solutions.
This is a career-defining opportunity to apply AI to real-world operational challenges in a dynamic, mission-driven environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop, train, and validate anomaly detection models across BLE/RSSI signal data, video streams, and audio transcripts.
- Build and maintain real-time ML inference pipelines integrated into the SKY WATCH microservice architecture.
- Implement models for BLE anomaly detection using time series analysis, clustering, and classification techniques.
- Apply deep learning techniques (e.g., CNNs, YOLO, Transformers) to video analytics and transcript processing.
- Optimize and convert ML models for production deployment using ONNX, TorchScript, or TensorFlow Lite.
- Integrate ML models into backend services using FastAPI, gRPC, or Kafka consumer architectures.
- Conduct continuous monitoring for model drift, performance degradation, and false positive/false negative rates.
- Participate in data pipeline design, including feature extraction from Kafka, InfluxDB, and S3 storage systems.
- Collaborate with product management, backend engineers, and cybersecurity teams to align models with operational use cases and security requirements.
- Document modeling choices, data assumptions, evaluation metrics, and deployment processes.
Requirements
- 3–7 years of professional experience developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments.
- Strong experience with anomaly detection techniques, time series modeling, and unsupervised learning methods.
- Hands-on expertise in computer vision (e.g., YOLOv5, ResNet, EfficientNet) and/or NLP (e.g., BERT, DistilBERT) for video and transcript analysis.
- Proficient in Python and major ML libraries/frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, HuggingFace Transformers).
- Experience with Kafka-based streaming data ingestion and real-time inference.
- Knowledge of time series databases (e.g., InfluxDB) and feature extraction from large-scale sensor or video datasets.
- Strong skills in building and optimizing model serving pipelines using FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks.
- Familiarity with model versioning, experiment tracking, and reproducibility tools (e.g., MLflow, Weights & Biases).
- Excellent understanding of deploying secure and efficient models into containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Ability to work collaboratively across data science, software engineering, and DevOps teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building ML models for BLE/RSSI anomaly detection, video surveillance analytics, or audio processing.
- Knowledge of drift detection, anomaly scoring, and model retraining pipelines.
- Familiarity with hybrid cloud deployment (AWS, Azure, or private cloud).
- Prior experience supporting DoD, IC, or critical infrastructure security projects.
- Clearance (Secret or higher) or eligibility to obtain clearance is highly preferred
Blue Sky Innovators, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you are a qualified job seeker with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access http://www.blueskyinnovators.com as a result of your disability. To request an accommodation, please email us at careers@blueskyinnovators.com and provide your name and contact information. Please note: this is only for job seekers with disabilities requesting an accommodation.
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