[Hiring] Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Brightflag

Role Description

At Brightflag you will join a team at the forefront of AI in Legal Tech that redefines how legal teams operate every day. Brightflag is seeking a specialist Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to bridge the gap between AI innovation and production-ready software.

• Own the transition of models from proof-of-concept (POC) to production-grade code.
• Iterate on existing models to improve performance, scalability, and efficiency in a production environment.
• Work with engineering squads to ensure AI features are seamlessly integrated into our cloud infrastructure.
• Help scale Generative AI applications, utilizing frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex and implementing patterns like RAG.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust pipelines, infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows to automate model retraining and deployment.
• Implement systems for monitoring model performance, data drift, and accuracy to ensure high-quality outputs without manual intervention.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with a primary focus on deploying and maintaining ML models in a SaaS product environment.
• MSc or equivalent in AI/machine learning.
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Experience deploying machine learning systems to the cloud, particularly with AWS machine learning stack.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins/CircleCI/AWS Codebuild/Bitbucket pipelines/Github actions.
• Strong experience working with Docker and containerized environments.
• Some bash scripting experience and Linux shell knowledge is advantageous.
• Experience working in a shared code repository with version control using Git.
• Good familiarity with core machine learning techniques and metrics across classification, regression, clustering.
• Good skills in NLP, foundational representations like TFIDF matrices and topic modeling.
• Familiarity with Word2vec, Transformers, and experience working with text embeddings for data extraction, classification, etc.
• Strong familiarity with generative AI text-based applications and frameworks.
• Knowledge of frameworks such as LangChain or LlamaIndex may be useful but not essential.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a fast-paced product environment.
• A passion for building product-focused solutions that solve customer problems.
• A track record of shipping product by working collaboratively with product and software engineering teams.
• Ability to work autonomously.

Requirements

• Some experience of dashboard tools such as PowerBi/Qlik/Tableau is a plus but not necessary.

Benefits

• A huge opportunity to make a real impact, to shape what we do and where we are going.
• The exposure and challenge you need to learn, grow and progress your career in a high growth environment.
• Complex technical and business problems to solve and the trust and autonomy you need to go and solve them.
• A sound, helpful team, in a friendly, values-driven and inclusive environment.
• Competitive salary.
• 25 days of holidays.
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance, and long-term illness/income protection.
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns.

Location & Eligibility

• This role offers a flexible work location across Ireland.
• Quarterly team meet-ups in our Dublin office are expected.
• We cannot offer work permit sponsorship/self-sponsorship for this role.