ML Tech Lead

About us:

Our website and apps help renters search listings, schedule tours and submit applications. Founded in 1999, we now have 60 employees. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

The role:

Our team is growing and we are hiring an ML Tech Lead. The Machine Learning team trains and serves models that run on every customer request. We need someone who cares about latency as much as accuracy. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll do:

• Document model cards, data sources and known failure modes
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• Handle on-call for the ML services the team owns
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases

What we're looking for:

• 8+ 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)
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field
• Comfortable with SQL and large-scale data processing in Spark or Ray
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them

What you get:

• Company laptop
• Paid time off
• Monthly internet allowance

Tell us your notice period and what salary you are looking for.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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