Accenture
AI / ML Engineer
$103K–$196K
Arlington, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Arlington, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 3–6+ years in machine learning engineering, data science, or AI development; 3+ years leading technical teams.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
About the job
Builds and operates production AI/ML and generative AI solutions for federal government missions, from use-case definition through deployment and monitoring.
What you'll do
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into AI/ML use cases and technical solutions; design, fine-tune, and evaluate ML and GenAI models.
- Develop end-to-end ML pipelines and deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable models and agents.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams while implementing data quality, security, governance, and Responsible AI practices.
What they ask for
- US Citizen (Public Trust Eligible); applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
- 3–6+ years in machine learning engineering, data science, or AI development.
- 3+ years leading technical teams, including setting technical standards and strategies and supporting compliance.
- Hands-on cloud AI/ML platform experience, strong Python skills and ML framework familiarity, and understanding of LLMs, embeddings, vector search, and generative AI.
Nice to have
- Google Cloud Professional certification (ML Engineer, Data Engineer, or Architect); experience with Vertex AI Search, Agents, RAG solutions, or vector databases.
- Master’s degree; prior federal or regulated-industry experience; Responsible AI knowledge; familiarity with GCP operational tools or AWS/Azure equivalents.
Pay
$103,200 — $196,400 USD base pay
Tools
Python, SQL, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Vertex AI, Gemini, BigQuery
AI focus
Design, fine-tune, evaluate, and operate ML and GenAI models, including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, and agents; work includes Responsible AI, monitoring, and production deployment.
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