Lead ML Engineer – Architecture, Leadership & Systems

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd. in Raleigh, NC, seeks a seasoned Machine Learning Engineer Lead to steer a team of 4–5 ML engineers and shape scalable AI product systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and establish best practices for ML design, testing and deployment across enterprise-grade pipelines. You will oversee multi-step reasoning systems, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks to ensure reliable, safe AI outputs, with CI/CD and governance at the core of the role.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of Machine Learning/Software Engineer experience
• 2-3 years of people management experience
• Master’s or Bachelor’s in CS is highly desirable
• Strong software engineering background with system design experience

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4–5 ML engineers.
• Provide architectural direction and code-level guidance.
• Establish engineering best practices for ML system design, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct design reviews, performance reviews, and technical roadmap planning.
• Standardize infrastructure patterns for LLM serving and retrieval systems.
• Define and implement enterprise-ready agentic frameworks.
• Architect multi-step reasoning systems.
• Lead decisions on deterministic workflows vs autonomous agents.
• Implement guardrails, safety layers, and traceability mechanisms.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates and reliability.
• Establish CI/CD standards for ML lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and responsible AI standards.

Skills

Team leadership

ML engineering

Architectural direction

ML systems design

CI/CD for ML

Governance & safety

Evaluation frameworks

LLM serving

Education

Master’s degree in CS or related

Bachelor’s degree in CS

Tools

Python

ML frameworks

CI/CD tools

Job description

WhiteCrow Research Pvt. Ltd. in Raleigh, NC, seeks a seasoned Machine Learning Engineer Lead to steer a team of 4–5 ML engineers and shape scalable AI product systems.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and establish best practices for ML design, testing and deployment across enterprise-grade pipelines. You will oversee multi-step reasoning systems, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks to ensure reliable, safe AI outputs, with CI/CD and governance at the core of the role.