Cole Robson

About Cole Robson

Throughout my career, I have been eager to dedicate my energy and time to optimizing ETL…

Experience

1. Staff Machine Learning Engineer

   Onebrief

   Feb 2024 — Present

   Job Responsibilities:Serves as founding ML Engineer and technical leader who established the company\'s AI function from 0-to-1, while architecting the comprehensive ML strategy and research roadmap powering the platform for mission-critical military decision-making. Acts as principal AI advisor to the executive leadership team, translating emerging research trends into strategic technology investments maintaining competitive advantage in the defense sector. Pioneers advanced ML infrastructure design, including custom serving frameworks for high performance model deployment and sophisticated RAG implementations. Directs full technical implementation of cutting-edge multimodal AI capabilities, integrating state-of-the-art language and vision models into production systems – both traditional and agentic. Leads cross-functional research and engineering initiatives translating complex military contextual requirements into scalable architectures through Model Context Protocols. Establishes company\'s Responsible AI framework aligned with DoD requirements, incorporating governance, security protocols, and ethical guardrails essential for classified environments.Key Achievements:• Accelerated Innovation: Fine-tuned 37+ advanced Large Language and visual models (Phi-4, Llama 3.3, LayoutLMv3) using DPO, RLHF, and LoRA.• Scalable Infrastructure: Built robust ML serving frameworks optimized for GPU/CPU deployments, leveraging vLLM, HuggingFace inference APIs, and containerized environments.• Customer & Product Strategy: Advised product and customer success teams, using direct feedback to drive AI feature development, enhancing user satisfaction and retention.• Document Automation: Engineered automated Document Layout Analysis & OCR pipelines using advanced transformers, simplifying data extraction from diverse documents.• Responsible AI: Implemented frameworks aligning with DIU and NIST-600, ensuring transparency, security, and compliance.

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy and Linguistics

• The George Washington University

  Doctor of Engineering, Machine Learning

• University of Delaware

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Statistics