Machine Learning Engineer - Search Ranking

About Lamplighter Data

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About the role

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. We're looking for an engineer to build retrieval-augmented generation features on hosted and open-weight language models, with proper evaluation. The operations team trains and serves models that run on every customer request. We need someone who cares about latency as much as accuracy. The company is based in Hanover, Germany. Our team works from several countries. We hire in India through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

What you'll work on

• Write clean, tested Python and review teammates' code
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes

About you

• 2-4 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)
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX

Desirable

• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale

What we offer

Rate: ₹37-42 LPA

• Company laptop
• Paid sick days
• Annual team retreat
• Home office setup budget

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

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