Lead ML Engineer – Production Models & MLOps

Aviasales; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Aviasales seeks a Principal ML Engineer or Team Lead to drive ML projects for their travel search engine. The role focuses on deploying production models, building MLOps infrastructure, and mentoring a team of engineers.

You will move models from research to production, work with Python and classical ML, and ensure robust monitoring and scalable data pipelines. You will articulate technical decisions with business impact and guide architectural choices.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production ML systems and moving models from research to production.
• Ability to mentor and lead a team of engineers.
• Strong Python programming and ML model development skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and deployment of ML models for a high-traffic travel search engine.
• Build and maintain MLOps infrastructure, data pipelines and orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow).
• Establish robust monitoring, logging and performance dashboards for ML systems.
• Translate model performance metrics into business outcomes like conversions and revenue.
• Mentor team members and communicate technical decisions with business impact.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

MLOps

Team leadership

Production deployment

Data pipelines

Tools

Airflow

Kubeflow

LLM APIs

Transformers

Job description

Aviasales seeks a Principal ML Engineer or Team Lead to drive ML projects for their travel search engine. The role focuses on deploying production models, building MLOps infrastructure, and mentoring a team of engineers.

You will move models from research to production, work with Python and classical ML, and ensure robust monitoring and scalable data pipelines. You will articulate technical decisions with business impact and guide architectural choices.