Machine Learning Engineer

As the ML Engineer, you will adapt and optimise foundation models for personalised learning in Indian languages and educational contexts. You own the complete fine-tuning lifecycle: data curation, training runs, evaluation, and deployment of customised LLMs that power the learning experience.
Responsibilities:
Fine-tune foundation models for education-specific tasks: question answering, content generation, adaptive feedback, and curriculum alignment.
Own end-to-end fine-tuning workflows: dataset curation, training runs, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation, and model versioning.
Implement efficient fine-tuning methods (LoRA, QLoRA, DoRA, adapters) appropriate to available compute budgets.
Build RLHF and preference optimisation pipelines: DPO, PPO, reward modelling for aligning models to learning outcomes.
Optimise GPU training efficiency: DeepSpeed, FSDP, gradient checkpointing, mixed precision, multi-GPU setups.
Evaluate fine-tuned models rigorously: perplexity, task-specific benchmarks, human eval, and regression testing.
Build data pipelines for instruction tuning datasets including multilingual and Indic language data.
Assess new open-source model releases for domain applicability and adoption readiness.
Define and track model performance metrics, evaluation benchmarks, and optimisation targets across all fine-tuned model versions.
Work with open-source and sovereign LLMs, owning the full model adaptation lifecycle using proven, industry-standard frameworks.
Requirements:
Strong experience in fine-tuning and optimising Large Language Models (LLMs).
Hands-on experience with LoRA, QLoRA, SFT, DPO, RLHF, or similar fine-tuning techniques.
Proficiency in PyTorch and Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, PEFT, TRL).
Experience with distributed and multi-GPU model training.
Strong understanding of model performance, evaluation, and optimisation.
Knowledge of DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, and large-scale training frameworks.
Understanding of AI/ML pipelines, data preparation, and model deployment.
Experience working with open-source and sovereign LLMs; focus on standard, production-proven frameworks.

Experience
5-9 yrs