Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About Mooring Data

Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync. We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Founded in 2018, we now have 60 employees. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

About the role

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. The Applied AI team trains and serves models that run on every customer request. We need someone who cares about latency as much as accuracy. Remote within India. The team meets in Pune once a quarter, travel covered. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

What you'll do

• Fine-tune open-weight models with LoRA when it beats prompting
• Maintain feature pipelines and a feature store such as Feast or Tecton
• Cut inference cost with quantization, batching and caching
• Build training pipelines in PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on GPUs in AWS, GCP or Azure

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least two spent on ML systems in production
• Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)
• Knowledge of LLM APIs, prompt design and evaluation methods

Also helpful

• Recommendation or ranking systems at scale
• Guardrails, red teaming or safety evaluation for LLM features
• Computer vision background (OpenCV, detection, segmentation)

What you get

Rate: ₹23,00,000 - ₹27,50,000 per annum

• Health insurance for you and your family
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Flexible hours
• Internet reimbursement
• Learning budget
• ESOPs

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Start: Immediately.

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