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SeniorLead Machine Learning Engineer

EPAM Systems


Job Location:

Lviv - Ukraine

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 9 September 2026 (12 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 7 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are looking for a capable Senior/Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join our remote team. The chosen candidate will have a significant role in the creation development and management of our ML pipeline adopting industry-standard methodologies.


In this position you will focus on building deploying maintaining diagnosing and improving components within the ML pipeline. Additionally you will take the lead and contribute to the design and deployment of ML prediction endpoints. Partnering with System Engineers to establish the ML lifecycle management framework and advancing coding practices will be critical.


We welcome innovative individuals to become part of our dynamic team!

Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the design development and management of an ML pipeline aligned with best practices
  • Develop deploy maintain troubleshoot and improve ML pipeline components
  • Lead the design and deployment of ML prediction endpoints
  • Collaborate with System Engineers to create the ML lifecycle management framework
  • Write specifications documentation and user guides for applications
  • Improve coding practices and organize repositories within the scientific workflow
  • Set up pipelines for different projects
  • Identify technical risks and inconsistencies proposing mitigation strategies
  • Work with data scientists to operationalize predictive models ensuring clear understanding of model objectives and purposes and develop scalable data preparation pipelines
Requirements
  • 5 years of programming experience with a focus on Python and strong SQL knowledge
  • Proficiency in MLOps tools and frameworks (e.g. Sagemaker Vertex Azure ML)
  • Background in Data Science Data Engineering and DevOps Engineering at an intermediate level
  • Evidence of delivering at least one project in an MLE capacity
  • Expertise in Engineering Best Practices
  • Skills in utilizing the Apache Spark Ecosystem (Spark SQL MLlib/SparkML) or equivalent technologies for Data Products
  • Familiarity with Big Data technologies (e.g. Hadoop Spark Kafka Cassandra GCP BigQuery AWS Redshift Apache Beam etc.)
  • Proficiency in working with automated data pipeline and workflow management tools such as Airflow or Argo Workflow
  • Understanding of various data processing paradigms including batch micro-batch and streaming
  • Experience with at least one major Cloud Provider such as AWS GCP or Azure
  • Production familiarity with integrating ML models into complex data-intensive systems
  • Knowledge of DS technologies such as Tensorflow PyTorch XGBoost NumPy SciPy Scikit-learn Pandas Keras Spacy HuggingFace Transformers
  • Competency in working with multiple database types including Relational NoSQL Graph Document Columnar Time Series etc.
Nice to have
  • Background in Databricks MLOps-related tools or technologies including MLFlow Kubeflow TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
  • Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner
  • Understanding of containerization technologies like Docker

Required Experience:

Senior IC