Junior Machine Learning Engineer

About Nowak Data

Nowak Data builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Clients range from single-location retailers to franchise groups with hundreds of stores, all running our point-of-sale and loyalty software. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

What this job is

This is a newly created position. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. This hire will help build out our ML platform: feature store, training pipelines, model registry and deployment. We are headquartered in Columbus and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

What you'll work on

• Build training pipelines in PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on GPUs in AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Cut inference cost with quantization, batching and caching.
• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes.
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.

Desirable

• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale.
• Published papers or open source ML contributions.

Why work with us

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Long-term engagement.
• Company laptop.

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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