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Lead AI Engineer

Bjak · AI Engineering
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Remotefull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Lead AI Engineer at BJAK responsible for designing, deploying, and scaling AI systems supporting millions, mentoring engineers, and leading AI initiatives.

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 workflowsAI problem solving (recommendation, fraud, NLP, etc.)Leadership and mentoring

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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