Machine Learning Engineer

WHO WE ARE

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS.

THE ROLE

We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our team. This is a remote role. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. We're looking for an engineer to build retrieval-augmented generation features on hosted and open-weight language models, with proper evaluation. The company is based in Auburn, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

• Handle on-call for the ML services the team owns
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting
• Develop RAG pipelines with embeddings, vector stores (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate) and rerankers

ABOUT YOU

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Distributed training with DeepSpeed or FSDP
• CUDA or Triton kernel experience

WHAT YOU GET

• Company laptop
• Paid time off
• Annual rate review

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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