Machine Learning Engineer – W2 ONLY Contract

** This role is NOT open for C2C

Title: Machine Learning Engineer

Terms of Employment

• W2 Contract, 12 months
• The office is located in Washington, D.C.

Overview

Our client is in search of a Machine Learning Engineer to collaborate with the their local development team, contributing to the advancement of the Machine Learning program. Our client’s local systems offer Machine Learning services to the business plans, aiming to enhance claim processing, provider prediction, and automation, thereby reducing the need for human intervention in processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI and Generative AI models and solutions using AWS Sagemaker.
• Evaluate, select, implement, and support an enterprise data science toolkit, ensure that systems are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Build consensus around standards and best practices while ensuring alignment with enterprise principles.
• Use statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze data and develop predictive models.
• Communicate insights and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Develop and deploy processes to automate data ingestion, preparation, model training, predictions, and data delivery.
• Monitor the performance of machine learning models and make improvements as needed
• Discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help with making smarter decisions to deliver even better products.
• Apply data mining techniques, perform statistical analysis, and build high quality prediction systems integrated with products.
• Explore, promote, and implement semantic data capabilities through Natural Language Processing, text analysis and Machine Learning techniques.
• Attend status and projects meetings to discuss, schedule, prioritize tasks, and report progress of projects.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3 years of experience in a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer role.
• Must have more than one year of AWS Sagemaker experience.
• Experience with implementation of AWS Services preferred such as Lambda, S3, and AppFlow.
• Experience with deploying and monitoring machine learning models.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Proven track record of supporting high quality data science processes or applications.
• Highly developed problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with peers in a transparent manner.
• Ability to perform various data sourcing, transformation, and storage tasks.
• Knowledge of statistical based data analysis and developing machine learning models.
• Extensive Python usage

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with Snowflake