Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search Ranking

Position summary

Ellery Systems has an opening for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Search Ranking. 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 Glasgow, the UK. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. We engage team members in Pakistan as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll do

• Deploy models behind low-latency APIs with FastAPI, Triton, TorchServe or vLLM
• Build training pipelines in PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on GPUs in AWS, GCP or Azure
• Orchestrate pipelines with Kubeflow, SageMaker Pipelines, Vertex AI or Airflow
• Productionize data science prototypes without rewriting everything
• Develop RAG pipelines with embeddings, vector stores (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate) and rerankers
• Monitor models for drift, data quality issues and latency regressions
• Set up evaluation harnesses and regression tests for model quality

What we're looking for

• 6+ 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
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes and a cloud ML platform (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML)
• Experience deploying models as services and monitoring them
• Understanding of core ML concepts: overfitting, evaluation metrics, bias in training data
• Strong Python and solid engineering habits (testing, packaging, code review)

Why work with us

Pay: PKR 690,000 to PKR 830,000 a month

• Company laptop
• Annual rate review
• Long-term engagement

A bit about us

We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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