Bjak

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

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5 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build and own end-to-end ML pipelines covering data, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.
  • Fine-tune and adapt models using methods including LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, and distillation.
  • Architect and operate scalable inference systems while balancing latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Design and maintain synthetic and real-world training data systems.
  • Implement evaluation pipelines for performance, robustness, safety, and bias in partnership 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, ship improvements quickly, and improve systems through real-world usage.

Requirements

  • Strong background in deep learning and transformer-based architectures.
  • Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying large-scale machine learning models in production.
  • Proficiency with at least one modern machine learning framework, such as PyTorch or JAX.
  • Experience with distributed training and inference frameworks, such as DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, ZeRO, or Ray.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build robust, maintainable, production-grade systems.
  • Experience with GPU optimization, memory efficiency, quantization, and mixed precision.
  • Ability to own ambiguous zero-to-one ML systems end to end.
  • Ideal qualifications include experience with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, FasterTransformer, RLHF pipelines, PPO, DPO, ORPO, multimodal or diffusion models, Apache Arrow, and Spark.
  • Contributions to open-source ML or systems libraries and background in scientific computing, compilers, or GPU kernels are valued.

Benefits

  • Small, high-talent-density and hands-on team.
  • Rapid interview process with 3 to 4 virtual and/or onsite interviews.
  • Prompt hiring decision process.
Bjak

About Bjak

201-500 employees

Our mission is to develop technology based solutions to improve financial inclusion. We develop new & innovative platforms & services globally. For example, we are the first platform to simplify and digitise comprehensive life and medical insurance, supported by AI agent. BJAK is the largest insurance platform in Southeast Asia. If you enjoy building cutting edge platform-ecosystems that gives equal access to financial services to everyone at scale, join us.