Machine Learning Engineer (with Vertex AI Experience)

Tiger Analytics is looking for a skilled and innovative Machine Learning Engineer with hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Vertex AI to design, build, and deploy scalable ML solutions. You will play a key role in operationalizing machine learning models and driving the end-to-end ML lifecycle, from data ingestion to model serving and monitoring.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, train, and optimize ML models using Vertex AI, including Vertex Pipelines, AutoML, and custom model training.
• Design and build scalable ML pipelines for feature engineering, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Deploy models to production using Vertex AI endpoints and integrate with downstream applications or APIs.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and MLOps teams to enable reproducible and reliable ML workflows.
• Monitor model performance and set up alerting, retraining triggers, and drift detection mechanisms.
• Utilize GCP services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and GCS in ML workflows.
• Apply CI/CD principles to ML models using Vertex AI Pipelines, Cloud Build, and GitOps practices.
• Implement model governance, versioning, explainability, and security best practices within Vertex AI.
• Document architecture decisions, workflows, and model lifecycle clearly for internal stakeholders.

1. Advanced Generative AI
    - Advanced RAG including Graph based hybrid retrieval
    - Multimodal agent

• Deep knowledge on ADK , Langchain Agentic Frameworks
• Fine tuning and Distillation 
  

2. Python Expertise
    - Expert in Python with strong OOP and functional programming skills
    - Proficient in ML/DL libraries: TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, PySpark
    - Experience with production-grade code, testing, and performance optimization
 
3. GCP Cloud Architecture & Services
    - Proficiency in GCP services such as:
      - Vertex AI
      - BigQuery
      - Cloud Storage
      - Cloud Run
      - Cloud Functions
      - Pub/Sub
      - Dataproc
      - Dataflow
    - Understanding of IAM, VPC

6. API Development & Integration
    - Designs and builds RESTful APIs using FastAPI or Flask
    - Integrates ML models into APIs for real-time inference
    - Implements authentication, logging, and performance optimization
 
7. System Design & Scalability
    - Designs end-to-end AI systems with scalability and fault tolerance in mind
    - Hands-on experience in developing distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous processing

Benefits

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.