ML Tech Lead

The position

Canalcross is hiring for the ML Tech Lead role to take models from notebook to production and keep them working once they're there. The company is based in Madrid, Spain. The team is spread across multiple countries. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in Japan, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Job duties

• Handle on-call for the ML services the team owns
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases
• Cut inference cost with quantization, batching and caching

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)

Compensation and benefits

Salary: ¥17,500,000-¥23,500,000 a year

• Co-working space stipend
• Flexible hours
• Annual learning budget
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Monthly internet allowance
• Company laptop
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

About Canalcross

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. We started in 1996 and have grown to about 109,600 people.

Start: Immediately.

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