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Ad hoc Machine Learning Engineer Interview Guide

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Getting ready for an Machine Learning Engineer interview at Ad hoc? The Ad hoc Machine Learning Engineer interview span across 10 to 12 different question topics. In preparing for the interview:

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- Practice real Ad hoc Machine Learning Engineer interview questions.

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Ad hoc Machine Learning Engineer Interview Process

Given two dates, write a program to find the number of business days that exist between the date range.

Example:

Input:

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code>date1 = 2021-01-31
date2 = 2021-02-18
</code></pre>

Output:

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code>def delta_buss_days(date1,date2) -&gt; 14
</code></pre>

Business Days

Python & General Programming

How would you design a classifier to predict the optimal moment for a commercial break during a video?

Commercial Break

Machine Learning

Let’s say you are designing a marketplace for your website.

Selling firearms is prohibited by your website’s Terms of Service Agreement (not to mention the laws of your country). To this end, you want to create a system that can automatically detect if a listing on the marketplace is selling a gun.

How would you go about doing this?

While designing a system to detect firearms listings on a marketplace website, what metrics could be used to minimize both false positives and false negatives?

While designing a system to detect firearms listings on a marketplace website, what metrics could be used to minimize both false positives and false negatives?

Detecting Firearm Sales

How would you build a model to detect if a post on a marketplace is talking about selling a gun?

Ad hoc Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>This position is based in Atlanta, GA.Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.Work on things that matterOur collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.Built for a remote lifeOur culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.Committed to high expectations and a welcoming cultureAd Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff Product Manager exhibits strong influential skills to represent the product management practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Product Manager:<ul><li>Strong influential skills to garner consensus among stakeholders, leadership, programs, and practice teams</li><li>Primarily supports a program/portfolio, but may support business unit initiatives in order to drive thought leadership among practice and delivery</li><li>Serves as a mentor to individuals within the assigned business unit or Program, providing constructive feedback to support employee development and practice innovations</li><li>Presents to a wide variety of audiences, inclusive of internal and external stakeholders</li><li>Primarily focused on program/portfolio strategic initiatives, but may support tactical assignments</li><li>Exhibits strong communications skills in order to gain consensus, mitigate conflict, and serves as a stewardess of innovation or change</li><li>Responsible for defining the vision and strategy for products and identifying areas of growth for a program or portfolio of work</li><li>Demonstrates the ability to make educated decisions and understands when to pivot and how to experiment in order to reduce uncertainty and inform next steps</li><li>Utilizes effective communication skills and understands how to translate complex issues for a wide variety of audiences in order to influence decision making for the highest value outcome</li><li>May support growth opportunities, inclusive of proposal writing, solution development, presentations, and briefings</li><li>Serves as a partner to Project and Program Managers to support the delivery of required scope and deliverables</li></ul>Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience<ul><li>3+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams</li></ul></li><li>Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming</li><li>Previous CDC experience would be a major plus</li><li>Building Drupal or other Content Management sites, product planning, road mapping, strategic engagement, government product risks</li><li>Should be based in ATL</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul> <li>Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following:<ul> <li>CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certification</li></ul></li> </ul>To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join Benefits:<ul><li>Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance</li><li>Flexible PTO</li><li>401K with employer match</li><li>Paid parental leave after one year of service</li><li>Employee Assistance Program</li></ul>Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $140,000-$150,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.</div></div>

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Join our team!
Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.
Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.
Work on things that matter
Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.
Built for a remote life
Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.
Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture
Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.
The  Veterans Affairs  business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities:
In this role, you will serve as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in data engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Data Engineer III include:
Builds data infrastructure, pipelines, systems, and tools with a little feedback and guidance from their team
Intermediate understanding of data management and transformation of raw data into interpretable information
Ability to create accurate and accessible datasets for Data Analysts and Scientists to interpret and use
Own maintenance of data architectures and systems
Practices technical and communications skills to improve context knowledge and mentor junior data engineers
Presents on and writes about their work to both internal and external parties
Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of data architectures and infrastructure
Supports recruiting efforts by evaluating homework assignments and potentially assisting with interviews
Design and build data models and pipelines to support analytics across a VA portfolio.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience
Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

Proficient with at least one family of data ingestion systems, cloud database services, and visualization software
Background in key data concepts including constructing databases, processing big data, improving data accuracy, etc.
Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO
401K with employer match
Paid parental leave after one year of service
Employee Assistance Program
Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $115,000-125,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>Senior Product Manager This is a remote position.Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.Work on things that matterOur collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology. Built for a remote lifeOur culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers. Committed to high expectations and a welcoming cultureAd Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Product Manager impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s product management practice. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Product Manager include: <ul> <li>Strong influential skills to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders</li> <li>Serves as a mentor and coach to other product team members</li> <li>Leads cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads; may serve as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders</li> <li>Primarily focused on program and delivery strategy, but also supports tactical assignments</li> <li>Considered an expert with agile methodologies; ability to lead cross-functionally and deliver based upon requirements</li> <li>Leads a cross-functional team to deliver new products given the mission and goals of the customer. </li> <li>Works with a client/product owner to shape the vision and strategy for a product or program and adopt more iterative and outcome-driven ways of working</li> <li>Shapes the vision and narrative for the product by developing artifacts, like a “product brief” and related roadmaps; with the goal of instilling a shared purpose and metrics to define success</li> <li>Works with customers to develop strategies that focus on the highest value outcomes for the program given goals, needs, and constraints </li> <li>Successfully advocates for user needs and lean methods when setting priorities and managing tradeoffs</li><li>Understands business processes, product roles, and user challenges to ensure accurate interpretation of operational data</li> </ul>Basic Qualifications: <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience<ul> <li>Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education</li></ul></li> <li>1+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams</li><li>This role requires business analyst tasks so the ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in that space</li><li> Must be able to effectively communicate data findings and support client product owners to set strategic priorities and inform decision-making</li> </ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>VA experience is highly preferable.</li><li>Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following<ul> <li>CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications</li> </ul></li><li>1+ years experience directing assignments for cross-functional teams</li></ul>To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/joinBenefits:<ul> <li>Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance</li> <li>Flexible PTO</li> <li>401K with employer match</li> </ul><ul> <li>Paid parental leave after one year of service</li> <li>Employee Assistance Program</li> </ul>Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $125,000-135,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. job reference:https://adhoc.team/</div></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>Senior Software Engineer - Full StackThis position is based in Atlanta, GA. Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.Work on things that matterOur collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.Built for a remote lifeOur culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.Committed to high expectations and a welcoming cultureAd Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the implementation of the program’s development strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack include:<ul><li>Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership of their contributions to an application code base</li><li>Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems</li><li>Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, using incidents to inform educational opportunities and system improvements</li><li>Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills</li><li>Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients</li><li>Participates in technical interviews with new candidates</li><li>Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems</li><li>May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team</li><li>May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects</li><li>Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers</li></ul>Basic Qualifications: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of engineering experience<ul><li>Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education</li></ul></li> <li>Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)</li><li>Experience with Drupal</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>N/A</li></ul>To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/joinBenefits:<ul><li>Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance</li><li>Flexible PTO</li><li>401K with employer match</li><li>Paid parental leave after one year of service</li><li>Employee Assistance Program</li></ul>Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $140,000-150,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.job reference:https://adhoc.team</div></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>This is a remote position.We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.Work on things that matterOur collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.Built for a remote lifeOur culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.Committed to high expectations and a welcoming cultureAd Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Business Analyst impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s business analysis/requirements management strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in business analysis/requirements management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Business Analyst include:<ul><li>Strong influential skills to drive improvements and team member consensus</li><li>Presents analysis results and recommendations to key stakeholders and executes upon approved recommendations</li><li>Collaborates with program teams and mentors junior team members</li><li>Exhibits an extensive understanding of requirements and dependencies and develops documentation associated with project/program requirements, scope, process and operations</li><li>Leads the development of innovative solutions for program problems, identifies risks and offers mitigations</li><li>Effectively communicates with internal and external stakeholders to communicate status, obtain clarification, and address risks</li><li>Participates in technical interviews with new candidates and develops/grades homework (if applicable)</li><li>Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team</li><li>May lead small, less critical projects</li></ul>Basic Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience</li><li>Responsible for the Tool Management workstream, acting as the Scrum Master</li><li>Prioritizing backlog, creating, pointing, and assigning stories to the Tool Management workstream staff</li><li>Extensive experience with industry standards, tools and processes</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following certifications<ul><li>CAP, ECBA, CBAP, PBA or other related certifications.</li></ul></li></ul>To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/joinBenefits:<ul><li>Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance</li><li>Flexible PTO</li><li>401K with employer match</li><li>Paid parental leave after one year of service</li><li>Employee Assistance Program</li></ul>Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $115,000 -$120,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.</div></div>

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>This is a remote position.We are continuously sourcing for talent while we await anticipated job openings. Candidates who apply to this role understand we may not have an immediate opening and wish to be considered for future opportunities.Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.Work on things that matterOur collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.Built for a remote lifeOur culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.Committed to high expectations and a welcoming cultureAd Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable the VA to increase the use, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.Primary Responsibilities: In this role, you will serve as an emerging subject matter expert, while serving as an individual contributor that exhibits a high level of trust, autonomy and empowerment. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for leading and monitoring the ability to meet scope, schedule and delivery requirements and may support adjacent programs with the business unit. A Staff Product Manager exhibits strong influential skills to represent the product management practice in planning sessions, advocating for the best solution, while communicating tradeoffs. You will serve as the primary lead and proactively communicate with stakeholders; while utilizing strong influential skills to drive improvements in product management processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Staff Product Manager:<ul><li>Strong influential skills to garner consensus among stakeholders, leadership, programs, and practice teams</li><li>Primarily supports a program/portfolio, but may support business unit initiatives in order to drive thought leadership among practice and delivery</li><li>Serves as a mentor to individuals within the assigned business unit or Program, providing constructive feedback to support employee development and practice innovations</li><li>Presents to a wide variety of audiences, inclusive of internal and external stakeholders</li><li>Primarily focused on program/portfolio strategic initiatives, but may support tactical assignments</li><li>Exhibits strong communications skills in order to gain consensus, mitigate conflict, and serves as a stewardess of innovation or change</li><li>Responsible for defining the vision and strategy for products and identifying areas of growth for a program or portfolio of work</li><li>Demonstrates the ability to make educated decisions and understands when to pivot and how to experiment in order to reduce uncertainty and inform next steps</li><li>Utilizes effective communication skills and understands how to translate complex issues for a wide variety of audiences in order to influence decision making for the highest value outcome</li><li>May support growth opportunities, inclusive of proposal writing, solution development, presentations, and briefings</li><li>Serves as a partner to Project and Program Managers to support the delivery of required scope and deliverables</li></ul>Basic Qualification:<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree and 9+ years of experience</li><li>Demonstrated ability to define and prioritize roadmaps for complex tool suites involving technical, business, financial, and security requirements.</li><li>Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe) and experience working closely with engineering, architecture, and cybersecurity teams</li><li>Familiarity with cloud-native platforms, DevSecOps practices, and modern software delivery pipelines supporting high-availability enterprise systems.</li><li>Skills in translating customer and stakeholder needs into actionable requirements</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications:<ul><li>Ability to obtain/maintain any of the following:<ul> <li>CSPO, CPM, CSM or other related certifications</li></ul></li></ul>To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/joinBenefits:<ul><li>Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance</li><li>Flexible PTO</li><li>401K with employer match</li><li>Paid parental leave after one year of service</li><li>Employee Assistance Program</li></ul>Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $135,000 - $140,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.</div></div>

Are you ready for new challenges and new opportunities?
Join our team!
Current job opportunities are posted here as they become available.
Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.
Work on things that matter
Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.
Built for a remote life
Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.
Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture
Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.
The  Federal Civilian  business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.
Primary Responsibilities:
In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the implementation of the program’s development strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack include:
Demonstrates expertise, accountability, and ownership of their contributions to an application code base
Maintains a high-level understanding of adjacent technical areas and ecosystems to effectively coordinate integration with those systems
Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, using incidents to inform educational opportunities and system improvements
Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills
Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients
Participates in technical interviews with new candidates
Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems
May serve as a mentor to individuals within the team
May lead small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of engineering experience  Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education

Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one technical area (including but not limited to frontend, backend, or infrastructure engineering)
Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO
401K with employer match
Paid parental leave after one year of service
Employee Assistance Program
Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $140,000-150,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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Question	Topic	Difficulty	Ask Chance
Business Days	Python & General Programming	Easy	Very High
Commercial Break	Machine Learning	Hard	Very High
Detecting Firearm Sales	Machine Learning	Medium	High

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