Stott and May is a company working on a high-impact opportunity with a venture-backed team building AI systems used in real-world national security environments. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design and deploy LLM systems and build APIs for AI-powered applications.
Responsibilities:
- Designing and deploying LLM systems (RAG, embeddings, vector search)
- Building APIs and backend services for AI-powered applications
- Working across the full stack from data pipelines to inference
- Shipping systems into secure, sometimes air-gapped environments
Requirements:
- Active U.S. Secret clearance
- U.S. Citizenship
- Strong backend engineering skills (Python and/or JavaScript)
- Experience deploying ML systems into production
- Hands-on with LLMs, vector databases, or agentic workflows
- Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a fast-moving environment
- TS/SCI clearance preferred