Head of Machine Learning

About us

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. Profitable, no outside investors, and no plans to take any. We grow when customers pay us. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

What this job is

We're looking for a Head of Machine Learning to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help build out our ML platform: feature store, training pipelines, model registry and deployment. Remote, open to candidates across Sri Lanka. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do

• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality.
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting.
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them.
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data.
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field.

Compensation and benefits

• Medical insurance for you and your family.
• Paid leave.
• Internet allowance.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Negombo Labs.