Senior AI/ML Engineer, Navigation Algorithms

About BluJuniper

BluJuniper is an AI and optimization company building advanced software systems for complex operational environments. Our work spans cloud-native platforms, computer vision, natural language processing, data infrastructure, secure collaboration, and mission-focused AI/ML applications.

We are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to develop ultra-fast navigation and spatial reasoning algorithms for complex 3D environments. This role will focus on algorithm development, evaluation, metrics, and production inference workflows.

Compensation

$125,000 - $225,000 per year

Compensation will be based on experience, location, and qualifications. BluJuniper offers competitive compensation and benefits for eligible employees.

About The Role

As a Senior AI/ML Engineer, you will work on navigation-related algorithms that support fast reasoning through complex environments. You should be comfortable developing algorithms, building evaluation methods, analyzing performance tradeoffs, and supporting the data and inference pipelines needed to bring those capabilities into production.

This role is ideal for an engineer with strong Python experience, strong algorithmic instincts, and comfort working in technical domains involving spatial data, simulation, or complex environments. Experience with lower-level or object-oriented languages such as C++ or Go is a plus.

Responsibilities

· Develop, train, test, and evaluate navigation, spatial reasoning, and path-planning algorithms.

· Build algorithms that support fast movement, routing, or reasoning through complex 3D environments.

· Build and maintain data pipelines and inference pipelines for navigation-related capabilities.

· Define metrics and evaluation methods for each model, algorithm, or pipeline delivered.

· Analyze accuracy, latency, robustness, scalability, and operational limitations.

· Collaborate with backend, data, product, and AI/ML teams to integrate capabilities into the broader platform.

· Document algorithm behavior, evaluation results, limitations, and operational considerations.

Required Qualifications

· 5+ years of professional software engineering, machine learning, data science, algorithm development, or applied AI experience.

· Strong proficiency in Python and modern engineering or machine learning workflows.

· Experience with navigation, routing, path planning, spatial reasoning, simulation, robotics, geospatial systems, 3D environments, or related domains.

· Experience training, testing, evaluating, and benchmarking algorithms or machine learning models.

· Experience building data pipelines, inference pipelines, or production algorithm workflows.

· Ability to define clear metrics for performance, accuracy, latency, robustness, and reliability.

· Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, optimization, and production AI/ML practices.

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience developing high-performance or low-latency algorithms.

· Experience with Computer Vision applications regarding object detection and recognition

· Experience with C++, Go, Rust, Java, or similar lower-level or object-oriented languages.

· Experience with simulation environments, mapping systems, 3D structures, robotics, or spatial data.

· Experience optimizing inference latency, throughput, robustness, or deployment cost.

· Experience working in regulated, government, defense, or enterprise security environments.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means you can deliver fast, measurable, and reliable navigation-related capabilities. You can show how an algorithm performs, explain the tradeoffs behind it, and help move it from prototype to production-ready workflow.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who combines strong algorithmic thinking with practical engineering judgment. The ideal candidate enjoys making systems faster, more measurable, and easier to evaluate under real operational constraints.

Location

This is a hybrid role based in Washington, DC.

Employment Type

Full-Time

Work Authorization and Clearance Eligibility

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. An active U.S. government security clearance is not required for this role. Candidates who currently hold, have previously held, or may be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance are preferred. Certain customer, contract, or regulatory requirements may require additional eligibility verification.

Benefits

· Health, dental, and vision benefits for eligible employees.

· Flexible work environment.

· Opportunity to work on advanced computer vision, natural language processing, AI, optimization, and backend infrastructure problems.

· High-impact role with meaningful ownership over technical direction.

· Collaborative team environment with direct visibility into product and company strategy.

Equal Opportunity Statement

BluJuniper is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.