Remote ML Engineer (PhD/MS) — Part-Time, $60–$120/hr

Synthires; California; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Synthires is seeking an experienced ML Engineer (MSc or PhD) for a remote, contract role. The position focuses on model development, training pipelines, inference systems, and performance optimization, with Python-centric workflows.

This part-time contractor role offers approximately 15 hours per week, flexible scheduling, and immediate onboarding with tasks starting within 24–48 hours.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, ML, AI, applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, or related field.
• Strong professional or research experience in machine learning.
• Proficiency in Python and experience using coding agents.
• Ability to implement, debug, and validate complex machine learning workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and validate machine learning models, training pipelines, and inference systems.
• Implement model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods.
• Build reproducible workflows using Python and command-line tools.
• Debug numerical and system-level issues and optimize memory usage and performance.
• Create, solve, review, and validate challenging machine learning engineering tasks.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

Coding agents

Workflow validation

Education

Master's or PhD in related quantitative field

Tools

Python tooling

Job description

Synthires is seeking an experienced ML Engineer (MSc or PhD) for a remote, contract role. The position focuses on model development, training pipelines, inference systems, and performance optimization, with Python-centric workflows.

This part-time contractor role offers approximately 15 hours per week, flexible scheduling, and immediate onboarding with tasks starting within 24–48 hours.