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BJAK · 1 month ago

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

bjakcareer is a self-funded AI division focused on creating a new global consumer AI application. The Founding Machine Learning Engineer will play a critical role in fine-tuning models, designing data pipelines, and bringing intelligent features into production, all while working within a small, technical team.

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Responsibilities

Fine-tune and adapt models as needed while also designing new model architectures and training pipelines from scratch
Design and curate datasets, craft prompts, and experiment with alignment and safety strategies for high-quality outputs
Build evaluation pipelines for model performance, safety, and alignment, and innovate on new metrics for real-world impact
Ship models to production, optimise for latency and scale, and monitor drift or degradation
Collaborate with product, engineering, and design to launch polished, user-facing AI features
Explore new modeling approaches, optimisation methods, and product use cases

Qualification

TransformersDeep LearningFine-tuning methodsPyTorchPrompt EngineeringDataset CreationEvaluation MethodsSoftware EngineeringFast-paced EnvironmentCollaborationOwnership

Required

Strong experience with transformers, deep learning, and fine-tuning methods (LoRA/QLoRA, SFT, distillation)
Proficiency in PyTorch (preferred) or TensorFlow
Experience in prompt engineering and dataset creation for alignment, tone, trust, and safety
Familiarity with evaluation methods: perplexity, toxicity, relevance, robustness
Solid software engineering fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, clean code
Ability to operate in a fast, lean, and high-ownership environment

Preferred

Experience with text generation, moderation, ranking, or personalisation
Exposure to RLHF or reinforcement learning for LLMs
Contributions to open-source ML projects
Background in consumer-facing AI products or high-growth startups

Benefits

Insurance coverage
Flexible time off
Global travel insurance
Competitive compensation and performance-based bonuses

Company

Bjak is a technology company that develops an insurance comparison platform.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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Kuan Yue Ronald Lim
Executive Director
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