Remote Machine Learning Engineer

Description:

• We are seeking a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer to enhance and optimize our data extraction pipeline for commercial real estate lease processing.
• This role focuses on fine-tuning text classification models, improving training datasets, and working with large volumes of unstructured text data.
• The ideal candidate has experience with natural language processing (NLP), model retraining workflows, and cloud-based ML deployment.
• Responsibilities include improving and maintaining the data extraction pipeline used for lease document processing.
• The candidate will fine-tune and retrain existing ML models for text categorization, currently using TF-IDF and Scikit-learn.
• The role involves owning the QA process for ML outputs and continuously optimizing model performance.
• The candidate will enhance training datasets to improve model generalization and accuracy.
• Collaboration with the team is required to ensure consistent extraction of 15–30 provisions per lease document.
• The role includes working with OCR and NLP tools to refine document parsing and classification.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in machine learning, with a focus on text classification and document processing is required.
• Strong proficiency in Python and core NLP libraries such as spaCy, NLTK, scikit-learn, and transformers is necessary.
• Experience with TF-IDF vectorization and traditional ML techniques for text classification is essential.
• Familiarity with OCR technologies and PDF parsing tools, such as Marker, is required.
• Experience deploying models on AWS and working with APIs like OpenAI (via Azure) and Claude (via Bedrock) is necessary.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently are required.
• English proficiency at the B2-C1 level is necessary.

Benefits:

• A stable, long-term contract with opportunities for career growth is offered.
• The company promotes a remote-friendly culture that supports work-life balance.
• Continuous training, mentorship, and learning programs are provided to keep you at the forefront of the industry.
• Free access to AI training resources and state-of-the-art AI tools is available to elevate your daily work.
• A flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy as well as paid holiday days is included.
• The position involves challenging, world-class software projects for clients in the US and LatAm.
• Collaboration with some of the most talented software engineers in Latin America and the US, in a diverse work environment, is encouraged.