LLM - EM (Engineering Manager) - Python + Machine Learning , Finetuning

About Client:

Our client is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. They helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.Powering this growth is our clients talent cloud—an AI-vetted pool of 4M+ software engineers, data scientists, and STEM experts who can train models and build AI applications. All of this is orchestrated by ALAN—our AI-powered platform for matching and managing talent, and generating high-quality human and synthetic data to improve model performance. ALAN also accelerates workflows for model and agent evals, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, preference-pair generation, benchmarking, data capture for pre-training, post-training, and building AI applications.

Job Title: LLM - EM (Engineering Manager) - Python + Machine Learning , Finetuning

Location: Pan India

Experience: 9+ yrs

Job Type : Contract to hire

Notice Period:- Immediate joiner

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of ML engineers, data scientists, and MLOps professionals.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of LLM and ML projects — from data collection to training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with Research, Product, and Infrastructure teams to define goals, milestones, and success metrics.
• Provide technical direction on large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and distributed systems design.
• Implement best practices in MLOps, model governance, experiment tracking, and CI/CD for ML.
• Manage compute resources, budgets, and ensure compliance with data security and responsible AI standards.
• Communicate progress, risks, and results to stakeholders and executives effectively.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 9+ yrs of strong background in Machine Learning, NLP, and modern deep learning architectures (Transformers, LLMs).
• Hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, or DeepSpeed
• 2+ yrs of proven experience managing teams delivering ML/LLM models in production environments.
• Knowledge of distributed training, GPU/TPU optimization, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with MLOps tools like MLflow, Kubeflow, or Vertex AI for scalable ML pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (PhD preferred).

Nice to Have

• Experience training or fine-tuning foundation models.
• Contributions to open-source ML or LLM frameworks.
• Understanding of Responsible AI, bias mitigation, and model interpretability.