Machine Learning Engineer - Remote

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Role overview:

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer - Remote. We're looking for an engineer to build retrieval-augmented generation features on hosted and open-weight language models, with proper evaluation. Remote, open to candidates across Croatia. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods

Preferred:

• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP
• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale
• Computer vision background (OpenCV, detection, segmentation)
• CUDA or Triton kernel experience

Compensation: €3,100 - €3,800/month

Benefits:

• Private medical care
• Extra annual leave days
• Training budget
• Annual bonus
• Flexible hours
• Cafeteria benefit system
• Remote work allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in Croatia.

Start: Immediately.

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