Machine Learning Engineer, NLP

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2018, we now have 60 employees. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. Remote position. Most of the team is in Pune, but nobody is required to come in. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Main duties

Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting. Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality. Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes. Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code.

Skills and experience

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

Preferred

Published papers or open source ML contributions. Recommendation or ranking systems at scale. Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features.

What you get

Compensation: ₹18,50,000-₹22,00,000 pa

Health insurance for you and your family. Provident fund. Paid leave. Flexible hours. Gratuity. Learning budget.

Start: Immediately.

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