ML Engineer || Contract Job || 8-15 Years Experience

About Client:Our Client is a global IT services company headquartered in Southborough, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1996, with a revenue of $1.8B, with 35,000+ associates worldwide, specializes in digital engineering, and IT services company helping clients modernize their technology infrastructure, adopt cloud and AI solutions, and accelerate innovation. It partners with major firms in banking, healthcare, telecom, and media.Our Client is known for combining deep industry expertise with agile development practices, enabling scalable and cost-effective digital transformation. The company operates in over 50 locations across more than 25 countries, has delivery centers in Asia, Europe, and North America and is backed by Baring Private Equity Asia.Job Title : ML EngineerExperience Level : 8-15 YearsJob Location : HyderabadBudget : 2,00,000 Per MonthJob Type : ContractWork Mode : RemoteNotice Period : Immediate JoinersClient : CMMI Level 5Job Description:We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced ML Manager/Lead Data Scientist to join ourgrowing ML/GenAI team.You will play a key role in designing, developing and productionalizing ML/GenAI applications byevaluating models, training and/or fine tuning them. As a lead, you require a deepunderstanding of both machine learning algorithms and software architecture. You need to takeownership of projects from conception to deployment, collaborating with engineers andstakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.What we're looking for:● At least 5 years of experience in designing & building ML/AI applications for customerand deploying them into production● At least 8 years of Software engineering experience in building Secure, scalable andperformant applications for customers.● At least 2 years of experience leading and mentoring ML/data science teams( 4+ teammembers)● Experience with Document extraction using AI, Conversational AI, Vision AI, NLP or GenAI.● 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 forprompt development, including data cleaning, transformation, and augmentation.● Conduct thorough analysis to evaluate LLM responses, iteratively modify prompts toimprove LLM performance.● Lead the end-to-end design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and cost-effectiveGenerative 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 GCP or any equivalent cloudplatform involving data warehouses, machine learning platforms, dashboards or CRMtools.● Experience working with the end-to-end steps involving but not limited to data cleaning,exploratory data analysis, dealing outliers, handling imbalances, analyzing datadistributions (univariate, bivariate, multivariate), transforming numerical and categoricaldata into features, feature selection, model selection, model training and deployment.● Act as the senior-most developer, writing clean, high-quality, and scalable code. Thisincludes building core components for prompt engineering, vector search, dataprocessing, model evaluation, and inference serving.● Proven experience building and deploying machine learning models in productionenvironments for real life applications● Good understanding of natural language processing, computer vision or other deeplearning 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 and its machine learningservices.● Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.Good to Have● Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning or TensorFlow CertifiedDeveloper certifications or equivalent.● Experience of working with one or more public cloud platforms - namely GCP, AWS orAzure.● Experience with AutoML and vision techniques.● Master’s degree in statistics, machine learning or related fields.