ML Engineer (Intelligence) - Bengaluru
Role Overview
Build Oolka’s core machine learning intelligence by leading model selection, evaluation frameworks, and the retrieval and memory layer for AI systems.
This is a research-driven ML Engineering role focused on first-principles problem solving.
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Role Overview
Build Oolka’s core machine learning intelligence by leading model selection, evaluation frameworks, and the retrieval and memory layer for AI systems.
This is a research-driven ML Engineering role focused on first-principles problem solving.
About Oolka
Oolka is an AI-powered consumer fintech company focused on helping users improve and manage their credit health with AI.
ClanX is a recruitment partner supporting Oolka’s ML Engineering hiring.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in machine learning or applied AI.
- Strong ML foundations with hands-on experience in XGBoost, NLP, recommendation systems, personalization, and large-scale retrieval.
- Deep understanding of LLM architecture, training, and inference.
- Mandatory LLM post-training experience through fine-tuning and/or reinforcement learning.
- Experience designing model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of retrieval systems, embeddings, ranking, and memory architectures.
- Ability to define ambiguous ML problems from first principles and independently drive solutions.
- Strong experimentation mindset, data-driven decision making, communication, and technical reasoning.
Responsibilities
- Own model selection strategy for production AI systems.
- Design and build evaluation frameworks for LLM quality and performance.
- Architect and build Oolka’s retrieval and memory layer from scratch.
- Develop scalable retrieval pipelines and ranking systems.
- Improve model quality with fine-tuning and reinforcement learning approaches.
- Drive research-backed experimentation for continuous model improvement.
- Translate ambiguous problems into robust ML solutions with product and engineering teams.
- Establish best practices for ML experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
Interview Process
- The interview process includes recruiter screening, a hiring manager discussion, an ML deep dive, system design and problem solving, and a founder round.
Location
- The listed role location is Bengaluru.
- The source does not explicitly state whether the role is remote, hybrid, or onsite.
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