Senior Machine Learning Engineer NLP

What you ll be doing

• Design & develop state-of-the-art LLM-powered AI capabilities and Agentic AI/ Multi-agent systems end-to-end, from ideation to production for Observe.AI s product offerings, in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Work with cutting-edge tools and technologies in Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Natural Language Processing, including LLMs and LLM-powered technologies/ paradigms, including Agentic AI.
• Build/ maintain highly scalable production systems that power AI capabilities on Observe.AI product/ platform.
• Optimize ML models and processing pipelines for performance, cost-effectiveness, and scale.
• Work with a world-class ML team in building exciting stuff, mentor juniors, and influence peers/ stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-team with engineers, product managers, customer-facing teams, and customers to understand pain points and business opportunities to build the right solution for the right problem.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest ML/ DL/ NLP literature and influence the technological evolution of Observe.AI platform.
• Contribute to the community through tech blogs and publishing papers in ML/ NLP conferences like EMNLP, ACL, etc.

What you ll bring to the role

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science or related disciplines from a top-tier institution with exposure to ML/ DL/ NLP/ NLU.
• An engineering mindset with the competencies of an applied scientist.
• 3+ years of industry experience in building large-scale NLP/ NLU systems, with recent experience in building LLM-powered applications and Agentic systems.
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of ML and NLP/ NLU, and practical aspects of building ML systems in production; backed by extensive hands-on experience in building/ scaling customer-facing ML/ NLP/ NLU applications.
• Good understanding of recent advances in building LLM-powered applications, and multi-agent systems at scale.
• Excellent implementation skills in Python and Machine Learning Frameworks such as Pytorch, Tensorflow, HuggingFace, etc., and deploying/ maintaining scalable machine learning systems in production.
• Ability to provide thought leadership in one or more technical areas of interest to Observe.AI, and influence product development
• Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and presentation skills.
• Experience with Spoken Language Understanding is a plus
• Published papers in top NLP/ NLU conferences or workshops are a plus
• Relevant open-source contributions are a plus.