dan jacobson

machine learning engineer

Hello

My name is Dan Jacobson and I’m a machine learning engineer.

I currently work at Lockheed Martin; I’m the tech lead for our AI Consulting Team.

Recently, I’ve been building our in-house Foundation Model Platform, and leading a reinforcement learning team in our AI for Firefighting portfolio. If you’re interested, I presented our work at the 2024 Ray Summit.

I’ve worked as a diabetes researcher, a biomedical engineer, and a data scientist. I’ve built products across computer vision, NLP, time series, and RL. Some of them I can talk about. I’ve shipped linear models, custom transformer architectures, and a lot of CatBoost in between.

To peruse more, find my full cv, or download a my resume.

I keep meaning to write about things on my blog, but I keep not getting around to it.

February 2025