Job Description:
Machine Learning Engineer
Role Purpose
The Machine Learning Engineer will lead the AI and ML roadmap for the Digital Innovation & Product Hub, designing and shipping production-grade machine learning systems that power the Media teams at dentsu. From building robust training and inference pipelines, to defining how we evaluate model quality and business impact, this role owns the full ML lifecycle, partnering with Product Managers, specialism leads, data engineers and developers to turn business problems into deployed, monitored, well-evaluated models that drive measurable outcomes for our clients.
Accountabilities
Core Accountabilities
- Leading the AI and ML roadmap for the team, identifying high-value opportunities, prioritising against business impact, and translating strategic goals into a clear, sequenced plan of ML initiatives
- Designing, building and maintaining end-to-end ML pipelines covering data ingestion, feature engineering, training, validation, deployment and retraining - with reproducibility, scalability and observability baked in
- Owning model evaluation - defining offline and online metrics, building eval sets, running A/B tests and validating models for accuracy, fairness, robustness and business impact before and after deployment
- Establishing MLOps best practices across the team - experiment tracking, model registry, versioning, CI/CD for models, and infrastructure-as-code - alongside explicit technical documentation
- Monitoring models in production, detecting drift, debugging performance regressions, and iterating to keep latency, cost and accuracy within agreed thresholds
- Partnering with developers, data engineers and Product Managers to expose models via well-designed APIs, and working with specialism leads to embed ML capabilities into Media team workflows
- Collaborating with our internal Security and Legal teams to ensure models comply with dentsu’s Security Policies, data handling standards and responsible-AI principl
📌 Software Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 dentsu
📍 Mumbai