Machine Learning Engineer - AI

TravelCenters of America; India; On-site; INR 2,600,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Egnyte is seeking a skilled ML Engineer in India to fine-tune and optimize large language models, deploying them to edge and mobile environments with strict latency targets. You will own end-to-end ML pipelines from data ingestion to deployment, and monitor production performance including accuracy and hardware utilization.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with Hugging Face, adapters, and model distillation, with a focus on scalable, efficient inference across distributed edge devices.

Qualifications

• Experience fine-tuning SLMs with Hugging Face and adapters.
• Apply quantization, pruning, and distillation to lightweight models.
• Deploy ML models to edge/mobile/local servers with latency goals.
• Build and maintain end-to-end MLOps pipelines.
• Monitor models for accuracy, latency, and resource usage in production.

Responsibilities

• Fine-tune and deploy SLMs using Hugging Face and adapters.
• Optimize models via quantization, pruning, and distillation.
• Deploy to edge devices, mobile, and local servers with latency targets.
• Construct end-to-end ML pipelines from data to deployment.
• Track accuracy, latency, and hardware usage in production.

Skills

SLM Fine-tuning

Model optimization

Edge deployment

MLOps pipelines

Performance monitoring

Tools

ONNX export

Job description

Description

EGNYTE YOUR CAREER. SPARK YOUR PASSION.

Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 23,000 customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters who doers, thinkers, and collaborators are who embrace and live by our values:

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ABOUT EGNYTE

Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 23,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Fine-tune and train SLMs using Hugging Face, TRL, and adapter methods (LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT)
• Optimize models for inference via quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation
• Deploy models to edge devices, mobile, and local servers with strict latency targets
• Build end-to-end MLOps pipelines from data ingestion to deployment
• Monitor model accuracy, latency, and hardware utilization in production
• Evaluate model quality using benchmarking frameworks and custom evaluation suites

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

• SLM Development & Fine-tuning: Train and fine-tune SLMs using Hugging Face and Knowledge on Adaptors.
• Model Optimization: Apply quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and optimization for lightweight, efficient models.
• Edge Deployment: Deploy models to edge devices, mobile, and local servers, etc.
• Pipeline Engineering: Build end-to-end MLOps pipelines — from data ingestion to deployment.
• Performance Monitoring: Track model accuracy, latency, and CPU/GPU usage in production.

Good to have

• Deployment experience on edge or mobile environments
• Knowledge of ONNX export and cross-platform inference
• MLOps tooling — experiment tracking, model registries, CI/CD for ML

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

At Egnyte, we celebrate our unique differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Our global Egnyte Employee Communities (EECs) support representation and inclusion across our diverse workplace. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.

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