Encora is seeking a highly motivated Associate Machine Learning Engineer with 2–5 years of experience to join our growing AI/ML team. You will play a key role in building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models that power real-world applications. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working with data pipelines, model development, and MLOps workflows—and is excited to contribute to both experimentation and production-grade systems. This is a 6 month project with high potential for extension. You will work remote, supporting EST hours. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to design, build, and deploy ML models into production.
• Develop and maintain robust, scalable pipelines for data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model training.
• Integrate models with production systems and monitor their performance post-deployment.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to ensure high-quality, maintainable ML code.
• Contribute to model versioning, experiment tracking, and reproducibility using tools like MLflow, Weights & Biases, or similar.
• Implement model validation techniques, A/B testing, and continuous model improvement practices.
• Help optimize model performance and infrastructure costs across cloud or on-prem environments.

Required Qualifications:

• 2–5 years of experience in ML engineering, applied machine learning, or related roles.
• Strong proficiency in Python and libraries such as scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, and PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals including model evaluation, overfitting, regularization, etc.
• Experience with ML workflow tools like MLflow, Airflow, or Kubeflow.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS (SageMaker), GCP (Vertex AI), or Azure (ML Studio).
• Experience working with version control (Git) and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience deploying models in real-time or batch environments via REST APIs, containers, or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka).
• Knowledge of MLOps tools and concepts such as Docker, Kubernetes, model registries, and feature stores.
• Familiarity with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) is a plus.
• Exposure to NLP, computer vision, or time series modeling is a bonus.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.