Lead AI Applied ML Engineer

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. We are building a next generation, AI-driven Global Financial Crimes Strategic Monitoring solutions that detects AML risk, regulatory violations, transactions risk, misconduct, and behavioral anomalies. As a Lead MLE on the team, you will design, build and productionize Risk typologies/ features, data pipelines, supervised and unsupervised ML models, and LLM risk explainability that operate at scale across high-volume banking transactions. You will be responsible for leading a team of 4 to 5 ML engineers. You will work at the intersection of Risk modeling, and NLP architectures, inference systems, regulatory explainability and auditability. This is a hands-on senior role requiring deep expertise in ML operations, LLM integration, scalable ML systems and production grade engineering discipline. This role offers a chance to collaborate with product managers, architects, data science and operational teams, while also engaging in software engineering communities to explore new and emerging technologies.

Lead a small group of ML engineers Lead and influence team with development and operational standards adherence Design, build, collaborate, and operate ML models Design, build and operate LLM solutions Design and build feedback and accuracy measurement techniques for AI solutions Design, build, and operate risk features data pipelines in Databricks Conduct monitoring to detect and alert drift, bias and performance degradation Work closely within a cross-functional team following agile based processes Collaborate closely with Product Managers, SRE and Compliance SMEs to continuously improve product adoption, reliability and outcomes

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

8+ years experience in cloud based applications with 4+ years of experience as an MLE Strong foundation in Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Expert in functional programming and JVM based languages- Python, Java Experience integrating models into cloud scale, microservices based architectures Experience with one or more ML frameworks - Pytorch, Tensorflow, SciKit, NeMo, Huggingface Transformers Hands-on experience with AWS services, and Databricks Experience/Exposure to SQL, NoSQL and messaging stacks Excellent verbal & written communication skills and bias for action and ownership in early stage env Operational experience in supporting an enterprise grade ML application in production

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Knowledge of Firm Databricks CDAO platform is good to have Experience with building production-grade ML pipelines, APIs and MLOps frameworks Experience in AML, monitoring and investigations systems is a strong plus Good understanding of data engineering concepts, distributed systems, and scalable architectures Familiarity with vector databases, model serving, and inference optimization is a plus