Senior Remote ML Research & Engineering Specialist

Gramian Consulting Group; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Gramian Consultancy seeks a highly skilled Machine Learning Research & Engineering Specialist to drive an advanced AI training project—model development, training and inference systems, numerical computing, and performance optimization. This is a coding-intensive role requiring hands-on Python and ML engineering expertise.

You will build reproducible pipelines, implement or modify ML components, and optimize memory, throughput, and correctness.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
• Strong professional or research experience in machine learning and practical ML engineering.
• Strong Python programming skills, including the ability to implement, debug, test, and optimize non-trivial code.
• Hands-on experience using coding agents within a Python development workflow.
• Understanding of machine learning model development, training and inference workflows, and evaluation methods.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Implement or modify model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods using Python.
• Build reproducible programmatic workflows using Python, command-line tools, and relevant machine learning frameworks.
• Debug numerical, algorithmic, and system-level failures to identify root causes and implement reliable solutions.
• Optimize model training and inference for memory usage, computational efficiency, throughput, and performance.
• Design and execute tests to verify implementation correctness and compliance with objective performance requirements.
• Review and validate challenging machine learning engineering tasks, including existing code and proposed solutions.
• Use coding agents as part of the development workflow to accelerate implementation, debugging, testing, and code review while validating generated results.
• Document technical approaches, implementation decisions, test results, and performance findings clearly.
• Deliver high-quality, reproducible task submissions within project deadlines.

Skills

Machine Learning

ML Engineering

Python Programming

Research Experience

Independent Work

English Proficiency

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science / ML / AI / Applied Mathematics

Tools

Python Frameworks

Job description

Gramian Consultancy seeks a highly skilled Machine Learning Research & Engineering Specialist to drive an advanced AI training project—model development, training and inference systems, numerical computing, and performance optimization. This is a coding-intensive role requiring hands-on Python and ML engineering expertise.

You will build reproducible pipelines, implement or modify ML components, and optimize memory, throughput, and correctness.