Lead AI Engineer: Scalable ML Architect & Production Leader

EPAM Systems; Colombia; Remote; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead AI Engineer to manage ML systems from concept to production. You will design scalable architectures, build robust pipelines, and collaborate with product and business teams to define success metrics.

The role emphasizes leadership in ML lifecycle, handling large-scale data, and deploying models including recommendations and forecasting. Strong MLOps, PySpark, and PyTorch skills are required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 1 year of leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in MLOps practices for overseeing the ML lifecycle.
• Experience with batch and real-time data processing architectures.

Responsibilities

• Manage the complete ML systems lifecycle from problem formulation to deployment and monitoring.
• Design scalable ML architectures and robust data pipelines (batch and real-time).
• Build and launch models such as recommender, ranking, forecasting, and classification/regression systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define KPIs and success metrics.

Skills

Leadership experience

ML lifecycle

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or related

Tools

PySpark

Python

Kafka

MLflow

PyTorch

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead AI Engineer to manage ML systems from concept to production. You will design scalable architectures, build robust pipelines, and collaborate with product and business teams to define success metrics.

The role emphasizes leadership in ML lifecycle, handling large-scale data, and deploying models including recommendations and forecasting. Strong MLOps, PySpark, and PyTorch skills are required.