Vowels of the People Association (VOPA) is a Pune-based organization working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and education technology for social impact.
Our flagship product, NIPUN Maharashtra, powers foundational literacy and numeracy assessments across 70,000+ schools in Maharashtra, serving 5 million students.
We build AI that works for underserved populations — real classrooms, real children, real impact.
About The Role
We are looking for a passionate and technically strong AI/ML Engineer to join our team.
This is a hands-on engineering role with a research orientation. You will work on fine-tuning open-source models, designing machine learning pipelines, and deploying production-ready AI systems at scale.
Our Key Focus Areas Include
• Handwritten answer evaluation
• Marathi Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
• Computer Vision for Indic scripts
• Low-resource language AI models
• Efficient cloud and on-device AI inference
What makes this role exciting?
We have already shipped a fine-tuned vision model (Gemma 4 31B using Unsloth and LoRA) that surpasses many state-of-the-art models on Marathi children's handwriting recognition.
You will build on this foundation, improve existing systems, and explore current approaches to solving challenging AI problems.
Significant: This is not a data annotation or prompt engineering role. We are looking for someone who understands how machine learning models work internally.
Key Responsibilities
• Model Fine-Tuning & Training
• Fine-tune open-source LLMs and vision models using LoRA, QLoRA, and other Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques.
• Work with Hugging Face Transformers, Unsloth, and PEFT libraries.
• Optimize GPU
📌 AI/ML Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Vowels Of The People Association
📍 Pune
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