ML Engineer || Contract Job || 8-15 Years Experience

People Prime Worldwide; Hyderabad; Remote; INR 1,828,008 - 2,189,592; Full time

Job summary

A global IT services company is seeking an experienced ML Engineer to join their ML/GenAI team. The role involves designing and developing machine learning applications while leading and mentoring a data science team. Ideal candidates should have strong expertise in AI technologies, excellent Python skills, and experience in deploying ML solutions in a production environment. This is a remote contract position based in Hyderabad, India.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in designing & building ML/AI applications.
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience leading and mentoring ML/data science teams (4+ members).
• Proven experience building and deploying ML models in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and productionalize ML/GenAI applications.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders for successful project delivery.
• Lead the end-to-end design of scalable Generative AI solutions.
• Conduct thorough analysis to evaluate LLM responses.

Skills

Machine Learning Applications

AI Technologies

Data Analysis

Python

NLP techniques

Communication

Education

Master’s degree in statistics or related fields

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Google Cloud

Job description

Our Client is a global IT services company headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1996, with a revenue of $1.8B, with 35,000+ associates worldwide, specializes in digital engineering, and IT services company helping clients modernize their technology infrastructure, adopt cloud and AI solutions, and accelerate innovation. It partners with major firms in banking, healthcare, telecom, and media. Our Client is known for combining deep industry expertise with agile development practices, enabling scalable and cost-effective digital transformation. The company operates in over 50 locations across more than 25 countries, has delivery centers in Asia, Europe, and North America and is backed by Baring Private Equity Asia.

Job Title : ML Engineer

Experience Level : 8-15 Years

Budget : 1,80,000 Per Month

Job Type : Contract

Work Mode : Remote

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced ML Manager/Lead Data Scientist to join our growing ML/GenAI team. You will play a key role in designing, developing and productionalizing ML/GenAI applications by evaluating models, training and/or fine tuning them.

As a lead, you require a deep understanding of both machine learning algorithms and software architecture. You need to take ownership of projects from conception to deployment, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in designing & building ML/AI applications for customers and deploying them into production
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience in building secure, scalable, and performant applications for customers
• At least 2 years of experience leading and mentoring ML/data science teams (4+ team members)
• Experience with Document extraction using AI, Conversational AI, Vision AI, NLP or Gen AI
• Design, develop, and operationalize existing ML models by fine tuning, personalizing it
• Evaluate machine learning models and perform necessary tuning
• Develop prompts that instruct LLM to generate relevant and accurate responses
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to analyze and preprocess datasets for prompt development, including data cleaning, transformation, and augmentation
• Conduct thorough analysis to evaluate LLM responses, iteratively modify prompts to improve LLM performance
• Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Generative AI solutions, including designing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, agentic workflows, and model fine-tuning strategies
• Hands on customer experience with RAG solution or fine tuning of LLM model
• Build and deploy scalable machine learning pipelines on GCP or any equivalent cloud platform involving data warehouses, machine learning platforms, dashboards, or CRM tools
• Experience working with the end-to-end steps involving but not limited to data cleaning, distributions (univariate, bivariate, multivariate), transforming numerical and categorical data into features, feature selection, model selection, model training and deployment
• Act as the senior-most developer, writing clean, high-quality, and scalable code. This includes building core components for prompt engineering, vector search, data processing, model evaluation, and inference serving
• Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in production environments for real life applications
• Good understanding of natural language processing, computer vision, or other deep learning techniques
• Expertise in Python, Numpy, Pandas and various ML libraries (e.g., XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LangChain)
• Familiarity with Google Cloud or any other Cloud Platform and its machine learning services
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

• Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning or TensorFlow Certified Developer certifications or equivalent
• Experience working with public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with AutoML and vision techniques
• Master’s degree in statistics, machine learning or related fields

Hyderabad, Telangana, India