Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Who we are

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and two nearshore delivery centres. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones.

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. ML engineering role focused on pipelines, serving and monitoring. You'll work alongside data scientists rather than replace them. Remote within India. The team meets in Chennai once a quarter, travel covered. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Job duties

• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions.
• Cut inference cost with quantization, batching and caching.
• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM.
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything.
• Track experiments, artifacts and versions in MLflow or Weights & Biases.
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton.

Skills and experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production.
• BS or MS in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX.
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods.
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)

Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Flexible hours.
• Gratuity.
• Meal coupons.
• Internet reimbursement.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Start: Flexible.

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