Technical Lead, Production-Grade ML Systems

European Recruitment BV; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

European Recruitment BV is seeking a Technical Lead, Machine Learning to own the execution layer of ML systems. You will translate research directions into reliable, scalable, production-grade ML pipelines, training workflows, and inference architectures.

You will balance latency, cost, and reliability while fine-tuning models with LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation, and collaborate with research leadership and application teams to deliver production-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Built or shipped real ML systems used by people.
• Comfortable with large models and understanding failure modes.
• Write production-grade code with emphasis on system correctness.
• Self-directed, pragmatic, and takes ownership of outcomes.
• Clear communication and collaboration in small, high-trust teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ML system execution: data pipelines, training workflows, evaluation systems, inference architecture, and deployment.
• Fine-tune and adapt models using LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation.
• Architect and operate scalable inference systems balancing latency, cost, and reliability.
• Design and maintain data systems for high-quality synthetic and real-world training data.
• Implement evaluation pipelines covering performance, robustness, safety, and bias with research leadership.
• Own production deployment, including GPU optimization, memory efficiency, latency reduction, and scaling policies.
• Collaborate with application engineering to integrate ML systems into backend, mobile, and desktop products.
• Make pragmatic trade-offs and ship improvements quickly, learning from real usage.
• Work under real production constraints: latency, cost, reliability, and safety.

Skills

Production-grade coding

System design

Ownership & accountability

Cross-functional collaboration

Pragmatic decision making

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

European Recruitment BV is seeking a Technical Lead, Machine Learning to own the execution layer of ML systems. You will translate research directions into reliable, scalable, production-grade ML pipelines, training workflows, and inference architectures.

You will balance latency, cost, and reliability while fine-tuning models with LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation, and collaborate with research leadership and application teams to deliver production-ready solutions.