Artificial Intelligence Engineer - NLP / Machine Learning

About the job :

AI / ML Engineer / Sr Engineer / Lead

Location : Kochi / Bangalore (initially in Kochi)

Role Summary :

We are looking for a hands-on AI / ML Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade machine learning systems. The role requires strong experience in both model development and MLOps practices, ensuring that ML solutions are scalable, maintainable, and performance optimized.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and implement ML models for classification, regression, clustering, Recommendation System, Anomaly Detection, Neural Networks, NLP, Comp Vision Models
• Package models and deploy them into production environments using CI / CD workflows
• Develop and manage ML pipelines for data preprocessing, training, testing, and serving
• Monitor model performance in production (latency, drift, accuracy) and retrain when needed
• Collaborate with data engineers, MLOps engineers, and DevOps to ensure smooth deployments
• Support versioning of models, datasets, and configurations
• Participate in performance tuning, experiment tracking, and governance enforcement

Must-Have Skills :

1. CI / CD for ML (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.)

2. Model versioning and registry (MLflow, SageMaker, Vertex AI, etc.)

3. Data versioning (DVC, LakeFS)

4. Monitoring and retraining workflows

Nice to Have :

(ref : hirist.tech)