Junior Machine Learning Engineer

About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety efficiency and readiness.

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAEs Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

• CAE Values: Empowerment Innovation Excellence Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance

• A work environment where all employees are valued respected and safe

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver take initiatives and make decisions

• Recognition professional development advancement and having fun!

Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist in the development and testing of machine learning models for real-world applications under the guidance of senior engineers.

• Support the creation and maintenance of data pipelines and model training workflows using modern tools and frameworks.

• Participate in model evaluation and validation helping to analyze performance metrics and suggest improvements.

• Help monitor deployed models and contribute to maintaining their reliability and accuracy.

• Contribute to the fine-tuning and deployment of large language models (LLMs) for tasks such as summarization question answering and chatbots.

• Learn and apply tools like ONNX TensorRT or vLLM to support efficient model serving.

• Assist in implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases (e.g. FAISS Pinecone).

• Collaborate with team members to optimize model inference for performance and cost.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and contribute to ML solutions.

• Stay informed about emerging trends and technologies in machine learning and AI.

• Document work including model development and evaluation processes for reproducibility and team knowledge sharing.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Machine Learning or a related field. Masters degree is a plus.

• 02 years of experience in software development or machine learning projects (internships or academic projects count).

• Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or Scikit-learn.

• Basic understanding of REST APIs and microservice architecture.

• Exposure to MLOps tools and practices (e.g. MLflow Airflow) is a plus.

• Experience with Hugging Face Transformers LangChain or OpenAI APIs is beneficial but not required.

• Comfortable working with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) Linux and container tools like Docker.

• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as MySQL or MongoDB is a plus.

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to deep learning NLP or computer vision through coursework or projects.

• Interest in feature engineering and model interpretability.

• Basic understanding of prompt engineering and optimization.

• Familiarity with multi-modal models and distributed training concepts is a plus.

• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines is helpful.

• Ability to learn quickly and work in a collaborative agile development environment.

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials in any form. Shall not divulge any information or afford access to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Duties performed in an office environment and manufacturing facility.

• Must be able to work overtime on and off-shifts as required.

• May be required to sit down for long lengths of time.

• May be required to climb stairs.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any protected characteristic including disability and protected veteran status as defined under federal state or local laws.

Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at

Position Type

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color national origin age religion sex disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local CAE everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at .