Junior Machine learning engineer

About the Role

• This is a contractor position, approximately 15 hours per week, offering flexible scheduling, including weekends.
• The role is fully remote and global.
• The pay is $60–$120/hour.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and validate machine-learning models, training pipelines, inference systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Implement model components, data pipelines, evaluation systems, and numerical methods.
• Build reproducible programmatic workflows using Python and command-line tools.
• Create, solve, review, and validate challenging machine-learning engineering tasks.
• Tasks may involve implementing or modifying a model, constructing a reproducible training or inference workflow, optimizing memory or throughput, debugging numerical or system-level failures, and verifying correctness and performance requirements.
• This is a coding-heavy role.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong professional or research experience in machine learning.
• Practical proficiency with Python.
• Experience using coding agents with Python in your workflow.
• Familiarity with numerical computing and performance optimization.

Qualifications

• A BS degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
• Experience at a well-established technology company, AI laboratory, research organization, or other recognized engineering environment is strongly preferred. Exceptional open-source or academic experience may also qualify.