2026 PhD Graduate - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Johns Hopkins APL · Laurel, MD · Machine Learning
About this role
Johns Hopkins APL is hiring a junior-level Machine Learning Engineer based in Laurel, MD. The posting calls out experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs, NLP.
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- junior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Location
- Laurel, MD
- Department
- Machine Learning
- Posted
- May 15, 2026
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Job description
from Johns Hopkins APL careersDo you enjoy exploring and analyzing data to find data-driven solution to complex problems?
Do you want to contribute to work that is crucial to maintaining our national security and strength?
Are you continuously searching for new ways to grow your knowledge and improve your skills?
If you are graduating with a PhD in Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field, we would love to have you join our team! We are seeking a new PhD graduate with expertise in machine learning to support multi-disciplinary teams performing a variety of quantitative tasks for defense and national security applications. You will be joining a varied team of engineers, software developers, statisticians, data scientists, and analysts who are committed to advancing the state-of-the-art in performance evaluation of the nation’s strategic weapons systems throughout their lifecycle. We believe in continually growing our capabilities and cultivating a work environment that embraces innovation, integrity, trust, and teamwork.
As a member of our team, you will…
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams to support development of data collection, processing, and analysis efforts to assess the performance of a number of systems supporting the Navy and Air Force.
- Contribute to the full research and development lifecycle for emerging problems. This includes model and algorithm selection, experimentation, analysis, and presentation of results.