Principal Machine Learning Engineer
RemoteSouth Korea
Job Summary
Build and own end-to-end ML pipelines spanning data, training, evaluation, inference, and deployment. Fine-tune and adapt models using state-of-the-art methods such as 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. Own production deployment, including GPU optimization, memory efficiency, latency reduction, and scaling policies. Collaborate closely with application engineering to integrate ML systems cleanly into backend, mobile, and desktop products. Make pragmatic trade-offs and ship improvements quickly under real production constraints. Turn research direction into working, production-grade ML systems that drive daily task completion for billions of users.
Required Qualifications
- Strong background in deep learning and transformer-based architectures
- Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying large-scale ML models in production
- Proficiency with at least one modern ML framework (e.g. PyTorch, JAX), and ability to learn others quickly
- Experience with distributed training and inference frameworks (e.g. DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron, ZeRO, Ray)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals – you write robust, maintainable, production-grade systems
- Experience with GPU optimization, including memory efficiency, quantization, and mixed precision
- Comfort owning ambiguous, zero-to-one ML systems end-to-end
- A bias toward shipping, learning fast, and improving systems through iteration
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with LLM inference frameworks such as vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or FasterTransformer
- Contributions to open-source ML or systems libraries
- Background in scientific computing, compilers, or GPU kernels
- Experience with RLHF pipelines (PPO, DPO, ORPO)
- Experience training or deploying multimodal or diffusion models
- Experience with large-scale data processing (Apache Arrow, Spark, Ray)
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