AI/ ML Developer

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated AI Engineer to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in Generative AI-based content search and extraction, computer vision, and AI agents, with a strong foundation in both structured and unstructured data processing. You will contribute to the development of intelligent systems that leverage cutting-edge machine learning techniques and open-source tools to solve real-world problems.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience in Generative AI applications, especially in content search and extraction.
• Strong background in computer vision, including object detection and image processing.
• Hands-on experience with structured and unstructured data formats.
• Familiarity with AI agents and autonomous systems.
• Proficiency in open-source OCR tools and techniques.
• Solid understanding of conventional ML techniques and open-source libraries.
• Experience in MLOps practices and tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Docker, CI/CD).

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement AI solutions for content search and extraction using Generative AI models.
• Develop and optimize pipelines for processing structured and unstructured documents, including PDFs, scanned images, and text files.
• Apply computer vision techniques such as object detection and image classification to extract meaningful insights from visual data.
• Integrate and customize open-source OCR tools (e.g., Tesseract, EasyOCR) for document understanding.
• Build and deploy AI agents capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution.
• Utilize conventional machine learning algorithms and open-source frameworks (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) for model development.
• Collaborate with MLOps teams to ensure scalable and maintainable deployment of ML models.
• Optionally contribute to web-based AI applications using modern web technologies.
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Principal responsibilities:

• Building production-ready models to drive content extraction and classification from images and text-based sources.
• Working closely with business teams to understand requirements and iteratively design and develop solutions.
• Collaborative with product managers, technical teams.
• Create, test and iterate new and existing products and features.
• Designing and building Python/ML/OCR-based components.
• Not only supporting the development of the product, but also the full lifecycle including the deployment, testing and production support of the application.

Required experience:

• Strong experience in Document AI/Intelligent document processing using traditional models and Generative AI - particularly in using open source models for achieving business outcomes.
• Experience delivering to production in python, with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, generative AI, image processing and OCR all additional positives.
• Experience with some of the following frameworks - TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging face, Spacy, OpenCV, Regex or equivalents.
• Experience delivering safe code to production, focusing on cybersecurity and resilience of the application and APIs.

Nice to Have:

• Experience using PostgreSQL for data storage and management.
• Proficiency with Azure's core services like Azure Virtual Machines and experience with one or all of Azure CLI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure DevOps
• Experience delivering in teams releasing at a high cadence to production.