Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Document Processing / Production AI Systems
Company: Pantheon Data
Location: Reston, VA (Remote)
Salary: $140,000 - $200,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-08-27
About this role
Company Overview
Pantheon Data (a Kenific Holding company) is a private, small business based in the Washington, DC, area. Pantheon Data was founded in 2011, initially providing acquisition and supply chain management services to the US Coast Guard. Our service offerings have grown in the past ten years, including infrastructure resiliency, contact center operations, information technology, software engineering, program management, strategic communications, engineering, and cybersecurity. We have also grown our customer base to include commercial clients. The company has used this experience to expand our service offerings to other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other Federal Civilian Agencies.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help build production-oriented AI and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) systems. This role is for a hands-on engineer who can move beyond experiments and build working software that ingests, processes, analyzes, retrieves, and explains information from complex unstructured and semi-structured sources.
The ideal candidate has real depth in machine learning, NLP, OCR, computer vision, LLMs, and retrieval-based systems, but also has the broader engineering judgment to understand the system around the model: data pipelines, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, containers, testing, evaluation, observability, and production failure modes.
This is not a notebook-only, prompt-only, or research-only role. A successful candidate should be prepared to discuss specific systems they have built, including the data flow, model or inference architecture, deployment approach, evaluation strategy, failure modes, and what they personally implemented.
What This Role Will Work On
- Design and build AI/ML capabilities for Intelligent Document Processing, including OCR post-processing, document parsing, NLP/LLM extraction, semantic sear...