Technical Lead - ML Systems (Remote, Production-Ready)

Protingent; Washington; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Protingent Staffing is seeking a Technical Lead, Machine Learning for a direct-hire opportunity with a client offering fully remote work. You will own the execution layer of AI systems, translating research into production-ready pipelines and scalable inference.

You will lead end-to-end ML system development, optimize models for latency and cost, and collaborate with engineering teams to ship robust, observable solutions.

Qualifications

• Shipped real ML systems used by people.
• Familiar with large models and failure modes.
• Writes production-ready, correct code and takes ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ML system execution: data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation, inference, and deployment.
• Fine-tune models using state-of-the-art methods (LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, distillation).
• Architect and operate scalable inference systems balancing latency and cost.
• Design data systems for high-quality synthetic and real training data.
• Implement evaluation pipelines for performance, robustness, safety, and bias with research leadership.

Skills

Python

PyTorch/JAX

GPU training

Job description

Protingent Staffing is seeking a Technical Lead, Machine Learning for a direct-hire opportunity with a client offering fully remote work. You will own the execution layer of AI systems, translating research into production-ready pipelines and scalable inference.

You will lead end-to-end ML system development, optimize models for latency and cost, and collaborate with engineering teams to ship robust, observable solutions.