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Grey Matters Defense Solutions

Defense and intelligence technology

Machine Learning Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$70 - $93/hr
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Centennial, CO, USA
HybridHybrid work in Centennial, Colorado.
AI & Machine LearningApplied Machine Learning
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • An active Top Secret security clearance with an SSBI/Tier 5 investigation is required.
  • A bachelor's degree in a related technical field is required.
  • At least 7 years of professional experience with Python is required.
  • At least 4 years of hands-on experience with PyTorch or another machine-learning/deep-learning framework is required.
  • Extensive experience training customized state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models on real-world datasets is required.
  • A strong understanding of data structures, numerical methods, and algorithm design is required.
  • Experience developing software in a Unix/Linux environment is required.
  • Ability to work under minimal supervision is required.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are required.
Responsibilities
  • Support end-to-end model development, including architecture selection, training, evaluation, and iteration against mission problems, from feasibility prototype to production candidate.
  • Design and run rigorous experiments, including baselines, ablations, and held-out evaluation, with clear reporting that supports program decisions.
  • Package and deploy models into operational environments, and improve them through continual data acquisition.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to support data selection, preprocessing, curation, and extract, transform, and load (ETL) of relevant datasets for artificial intelligence and machine-learning development.
Desired Qualifications
  • Knowledge of and experience with self-supervised pretraining and downstream adaptation, transfer learning, generative models, and transformers.
  • Multi-GPU and distributed training experience, including PyTorch Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) or Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), with shared cluster resources such as Slurm, Kubernetes, or Run:ai.
  • Experience with experiment tracking and data/model versioning for reproducibility, using tools such as MLflow, Weights & Biases, or DVC.
  • Experience across deep-learning domains, including natural language processing, computer vision, and time-series data.
  • Familiarity with other machine-learning/deep-learning frameworks and libraries, such as PyTorch Lightning, TensorFlow, Keras, fastai, or scikit-learn.
  • Comfort working in restricted or air-gapped development environments.
  • A master's or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.

About the company

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Grey Matters Defense Solutions

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Grey Matters Defense Solutions is a veteran-owned technology contractor serving defense and intelligence missions. The company develops software, data analytics, artificial intelligence, remote-sensing, and mission-workflow solutions. It serves defense, intelligence, and national-security organizations. Its operating model centers on technical teams working with government customers in mission-focused delivery environments. Teams work across software engineering, data science, AI, geospatial work, systems engineering, program management, and operations. The organization combines national-security technology expertise with practical delivery for government mission teams.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The company listed active openings on May 27, 2026 for software and SIGINT talent.
  • HigherGov shows $8.9 million obligated on NAVSEA OTA N652362190005 through March 2025.
  • GSA still lists Grey Matters as a vetted 8(a) contractor in March 2026.

What critics are saying

  • STARS III base ordering period ended July 1, 2026, risking pipeline disruption.
  • HigherGov shows only one major NAVSEA OTA, exposing heavy contract concentration.
  • If NAVSEA OTA orders stop, Grey Matters loses its clearest scale engine quickly.

What makes Grey Matters Defense Solutions unique

  • Veteran-owned 8(a) firm blending software, data science, and intelligence-community veterans since 2016.
  • Grey Matters touts 40-plus employees from DIA, NRO, NSA, DARPA, and the Armed Forces.
  • It holds GSA STARS III and NAVSEA OTA access for defense software buying.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Employee Discount
  • Referral Program