Head of Machine Learning

Our main product is a payroll and timekeeping app for hourly workforces, sold by subscription and supported from Faisalabad. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Indus Data is hiring for the Head of Machine Learning role to take models from notebook to production and keep them working once they're there. This role is fully remote within Pakistan. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

What you'll be doing

• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.
• Handle on-call for the ML services the team owns.
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton.
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality.
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow.
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting.

Who you are

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray.
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods.

Preferred

• Published papers or open source ML contributions.
• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP.
• Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features.

Pay and benefits

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Indus Data (Pvt.) Ltd..