ML Engineer
Crossing Hurdles is a global recruitment firm partnering with a fast-growing AI-powered recruiting marketplace modernizing how companies hire. Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by industry leaders like Palantir, Shopify, and Coinbase, is building the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that combines specialized recruiters with AI agents to help companies hire faster and more accurately.
Role: ML Engineer
YOE: 4 years of experience in data engineering, deploying security-sage ML solutions
Location: Washington DC, DMV Area | Hybrid
Compensation: $150K — $215K
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead enhancements to the Virtualitics AI Platform to ensure innovation, performance, and reliability.
- Build and maintain interactive dashboards using the Virtualitics Python SDK.
- Optimize data pipelines and access patterns for scalability and efficiency.
- Troubleshoot performance issues to ensure low latency and high availability.
- Design scalable, production-ready AI solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deploy ML models.
- Contribute across ML, data engineering, and software development.
Requirements
- 4 years of experience in data engineering, deploying security-sage ML solutions
- Willingness and eligibility to obtain U.S. Government security clearance
- CS degree from top 100 schools
- Strong programming skills in Python(panda) and experience with ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn
- Hands-on experience building, training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models into production
- Understanding of data engineering concepts including data pipelines, ETL workflows, and optimizing data access patterns
Why Candidate Should Join
- Work on cutting-edge AI and GenAI systems using LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, and modern ML frameworks in production environments.
- Own ML features end to end, from experimentation and training to deployment and optimization.
- Deliver high-impact work that directly influences users and business outcomes.
- Learn and grow quickly while deepening expertise in applied ML and scalable AI systems.
- Thrive in a flexible, modern work environment that values autonomy and results.