The Role
Lead design, development, and productionalization of ML/GenAI applications including model evaluation, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and scalable ML pipelines on cloud platforms. Mentor teams, collaborate on data preprocessing and feature engineering, and deliver reliable production ML systems involving vector search, inference serving, and monitoring.
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Job Description :
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead ML Engineer to join our growing ML/GenAI team.
You will play a key role in designing, developing and productionalizing ML/GenAI applications by evaluating models, training and/or fine tuning them. As a lead, you require a deep understanding of both machine learning algorithms and software architecture. You need to take ownership of projects from conception to deployment, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
What we're looking for:
- At least 5 years of experience in designing & building ML/AI applications for customer and deploying them into production
- At least 8 years of Software engineering experience in building Secure, scalable and performant applications for customers.
- At least 2 years of experience leading and mentoring ML/data science teams( 4+ team members)
- Experience with Document extraction using AI, Conversational AI, Vision AI, NLP or Gen AI.
- Design, develop, and operationalize existing ML models by fine tuning, personalizing it.
- Evaluate machine learning models and perform necessary tuning.
- Develop prompts that instruct LLM to generate relevant and accurate responses.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to analyze and preprocess datasets for prompt development, including data cleaning, transformation, and augmentation.
- Conduct thorough analysis to evaluate LLM responses, iteratively modify prompts to improve LLM performance.
- Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Generative AI solutions. This includes designing RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, agentic workflows, and model fine-tuning strategies.
- Hands on customer experience with RAG solution or fine tuning of LLM model.
- Build and deploy scalable machine learning pipelines on Google Cloud or any equivalent cloud platform involving data warehouses, machine learning platforms, dashboards or CRM tools.
- Experience working with the end-to-end steps involving but not limited to data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, dealing outliers, handling imbalances, analyzing data distributions (univariate, bivariate, multivariate), transforming numerical and categorical data into features, feature selection, model selection, model training and deployment.
- Act as the senior-most developer, writing clean, high-quality, and scalable code. This includes building core components for prompt engineering, vector search, data processing, model evaluation, and inference serving.
- Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in production environments for real life applications
- Good understanding of natural language processing, computer vision or other deep learning techniques.
- Expertise in Python, Numpy, Pandas and various ML libraries (e.g., XGboost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, LangChain).
- Familiarity with Google Cloud or any other Cloud Platform
Good to Have
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning or TensorFlow Certified Developer certifications or equivalent.
- Experience of working with one or more public cloud platforms - namely Google Cloud, AWS or Azure.
- Experience with AutoML and vision techniques.
- Master’s degree in statistics, machine learning or related fields.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years designing and building ML/AI applications and deploying them to production
- At least 8 years software engineering experience building secure, scalable, performant applications
- At least 2 years leading and mentoring ML/data science teams (4+ members)
- Experience with document extraction using AI, Conversational AI, Vision AI, NLP or Generative AI
- Design, develop, and operationalize ML models by fine-tuning and personalization
- Evaluate machine learning models and perform necessary tuning
- Develop prompts and perform prompt engineering for LLMs
- Collaborate on dataset analysis and preprocessing (cleaning, transformation, augmentation)
- Analyze LLM responses and iteratively improve prompts and performance
- Lead end-to-end design and architecture of scalable Generative AI solutions, including RAG pipelines and agentic workflows
- Hands-on customer experience with RAG solutions or fine-tuning LLM models
- Build and deploy scalable ML pipelines on GCP or equivalent cloud platforms (data warehouses, ML platforms, dashboards, CRM integrations)
- End-to-end ML workflow experience: data cleaning, EDA, outlier handling, imbalance handling, feature engineering, model selection, training, deployment
- Write clean, high-quality, scalable code for prompt engineering, vector search, data processing, model evaluation, and inference serving
- Proven experience building and deploying ML models in production
- Good understanding of NLP, computer vision, or other deep learning techniques
- Expertise in Python, NumPy, Pandas and ML libraries (XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain)
- Familiarity with Google Cloud or other cloud platforms
- Google Cloud Professional ML or TensorFlow Developer certification (Good to have)
- Experience with GCP, AWS or Azure (preferred)
- Experience with AutoML and vision techniques (preferred)
- Master's degree in statistics, machine learning, or related field (preferred)
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The Company
What We Do
Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm partnering with leading Chicagoland companies to launch, scale, and modernize industry-changing technologies. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary. Our mission is to be an enabler of amazing possibilities for companies looking to use the power of cloud and data. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with clients, as true technology partners, and make sure they succeed at what they have set out to do. We want to be disruptors, game-changers, and innovators who have played an important part in moving the world forward.
