Key Responsibilities

- Lead the execution of the RD and product roadmap, leveraging industry insights and business needs to drive ML initiatives while managing team priorities and timelines.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment of ML solutions with overarching business objectives, effectively communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Oversee the development of robust APIs and microservices, ensuring smooth integration of ML models into production environments, and guide the team in building feature pipelines for model serving.
- Mentor and develop machine learning engineers, fostering a positive and productive work environment through training, guidance, and constructive feedback.
- Conduct code reviews and establish best practices to maintain high quality and performance standards while promoting adherence to version control and model governance.
- Manage and optimize end-to-end MLOps pipelines for data collection, model training, validation, and monitoring, while ensuring team collaboration and effective resource allocation.
- Drive the implementation of model compression, quantization, and distributed training techniques to enhance performance, encouraging innovative solutions from team members.
- Track key metrics and optimize deployed models to ensure ongoing effectiveness, collaborating with team members to identify improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate with cloud architects and DevOps teams to design and maintain scalable ML infrastructure, ensuring effective resource management and deployment.
- Work closely with applied scientists and analysts to transform model requirements into production-ready solutions, facilitating teamwork across departments.
- Establish and maintain monitoring and alerting systems for deployed models, ensuring prompt issue resolution while guiding the team in best practices.




- Create and uphold documentation for ML architecture and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing within the team, promoting continuous improvement.
- Stay current with advancements in ML technologies and lead ongoing enhancement initiatives within the team, encouraging team participation in the ML community.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelors/ Masters / PhD in Computer Science or related field.
- 9+ years of experience in machine learning, with a solid portfolio of deployed ML models for various use cases, including batch, streaming, and real-time.
- 3+ years of experience in people management, leading teams of 7 or more members
- Proficient in Python for model development and data manipulation, with experience in Java or Scala for building production systems.
- Familiarity with messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, SQS) and MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
- Understanding of data processing and ETL tools (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka).
- Experience with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
- Strong problem-solving skills and an analytical mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing large-scale production systems and distributed computing environments.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and developing junior engineers, along with strong project management skills.
- An innovative mindset with a track record of developing solutions that yield significant business improvements or patents.
- A collaborative approach to working across multiple product and application teams, with excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.
- A commitment to continuous learning, sharing knowledge, and improving team practices.

📌 Manager, Machine Learning (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tekion
📍 Bengaluru