Type: Direct hire, full-time · Base: $220,000–$292,000 + equity · Clearance: U.S. Person required (export control); Secret clearance preferred VDS is recruiting a senior ML engineer to bring AI onto the factory floor of a maritime defense production division. You will build the platform that turns inspection, root-cause and document problems into working AI tools. What you'll do • Design and run the end-to-end ML platform, from training to deployment. • Build model serving for cloud, edge devices and the shop floor. • Turn factory problems into AI workflows with human review built in. • Integrate with PLM, MES and ERP systems. • Set model governance and drift monitoring, and share on-call duty. What you bring • 8+ years building production software. • A degree in computer science, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience. • MLOps, Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, Docker and Kubernetes, time-series data, monitoring. Nice to have • Manufacturing or OT systems, computer vision or OCR. • Airflow or Flyte, CUDA or TensorRT, retrieval-augmented generation.