Senior Machine Learning Engineer

CoVar is a small AI/ML R&D software company that uses artificial intelligence to solve problems that matter. They are seeking a Senior ML Engineer (Technical Lead) with expertise in machine learning and computer vision to lead DoD-focused programs, manage customer engagement, and contribute to business development while building production-grade ML systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead programs end-to-end: Scope requirements, set technical strategy and milestones, plan resourcing, manage risks, and deliver results for DoD-focused ML/CV projects
• Own customer relationships: Run technical discussions, requirement discovery, demos, standing meetings, and briefings with senior stakeholders; turn feedback into clear roadmaps
• Stay deeply hands-on (50–70%): Build data pipelines, train/evaluate CV models, and write production code. Design, train, and optimize detection/segmentation/tracking models and custom computer-vision pipelines; handle imbalanced data, domain shift, and real-world constraints. Deploy models to production (typically on the edge), instrument for monitoring, and iterate with CI/CD
• Contribute to business development: Write technical sections of proposals/white papers, help shape capture strategy, provide level-of-effort estimates, and present prototypes
• Communicate and publish: Present results to high-level DoD and industry customers; author technical reports; publish novel work in classified/unclassified settings when applicable