Applied AI Research Engineer
Code MetalAI-powered Code company
Boston, United StatesSenior
Salesforce Ventures
Accel
B Capital
Smith Point Capital
J2 Ventures
Shield Capital
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Build AI systems for defense applications, focusing on human-machine teaming and agentic AI.
- •We're building next-generation AI systems that help military planners explore, compare, and evaluate operational courses of action.
- •As an Applied AI Research Engineer, you'll focus on human machine teaming and agentic AI to build systems that allow warfighters, planners, analysts, and decision-makers to explore operational choices with speed, confidence, and control.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and build agentic AI systems for planning, decision support, and human-machine teaming Develop AI pipelines that integrate foundation models, retrieval, simulation, external tools, and deterministic software Design, run, and analyze experiments to evaluate model and agent performance, reliability, traceability, latency, cost, and user trust Requirements Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience 3+ years building AI, machine learning, or applied research systems Strong Python engineering skills
Required skills
PythonPyTorchHugging FaceNLPLLMs
Nice-to-have skills
PandasNumPyAirflowElasticsearchMongoDBAWSGoogle CloudCI/CDDockerKubernetes
Domain expertise
defense
Benefits & perks
Health care plan with 100% premium coverage, 401k with 5% matching, Paid Time Off, Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangement, Relocation assistance
Tech stack
PythonPyTorchHugging FacePandasNumPyAirflowElasticsearchMongoDBAWSGoogle CloudCI/CDDockerKubernetes
