Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Karachi Data employs 770 people across engineering hubs in Karachi and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Job summary:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. You can work from home anywhere in Pakistan. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Key responsibilities:

• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code.
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow.
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions.
• Build training pipelines in PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on GPUs in AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• 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.
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)

Benefits:

• Medical insurance.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Fuel allowance.
• Two bonuses a year.
• Life insurance.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Immediately.

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