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Lead AI Engineer

Bjak · AI Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Lead role in building, scaling, and leading intelligent AI systems for financial services at BJAK, combining technical expertise with leadership to mentor engineers, drive AI initiatives, and support a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship production-grade ML models for high-impact use cases
  • Lead model architecture decisions, data pipeline design, and deployment strategies
  • Collaborate across product, engineering, and data teams to drive AI initiatives end-to-end
  • Own the full ML lifecycle: data preparation, training, validation, deployment, monitoring
  • Review code, guide technical projects, and mentor engineers through challenges
  • Promote experimentation, continuous learning, and AI best practices
  • Interview and evaluate candidates as part of the technical hiring process
  • Stay ahead of emerging ML techniques and bring cutting-edge approaches into production

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Strong proficiency in Python
  • Over 4 years of AI/ML engineering experience with real-world deployment
  • Deep expertise with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
  • Solid understanding of end-to-end ML workflows: data pipelines, training, validation, monitoring
  • Experience working on applied AI problems (e.g., recommendation, fraud, risk, NLP, etc.)
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and mentoring
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
  • Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams across time zones

Skills

Required:PythonML Frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)ML Lifecycle ManagementAI Problem Solving (recommendation, fraud, risk, NLP)Leadership & MentoringCommunication and Collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and performance bonuses
  • Remote-first work culture, with a hybrid work option for Malaysia-based team members
  • High ownership and visibility - your work directly impacts regional-scale systems
  • Direct reporting line to the Head of AI with leadership exposure
  • Opportunity to build and grow a high-performance AI engineering team
  • Fast career growth and learning in a high-velocity environment
  • Flat, collaborative culture where ideas move fast and great work gets noticed
Last updated Dec 6, 2025. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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