AI​/ML Development Lead

Job-ID Reference
26-01886

Type Contract to HireAI/ML Dev Lead About the Role We are seeking an experienced AI - Machine Learning Dev Lead to join our team, responsible for end-to-end model deployment and providing technical leadership on ML infrastructure and data engineering initiatives. This is a hands-on leadership position combining deep GCP expertise with team mentorship responsibilities.

Required Qualifications Programming:
Strong practical experience with Python Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
Demonstrated production experience with:
Vertex AIBig Query Cloud  Run Cloud Storage Container Orchestration:
Familiarity with GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) / Kubernetes for deployment workflows

Preferred Qualifications End-to-end model deployment experience, including:
Feature engineering

Data transformations

Inference pipelines

Working knowledge of Vertex AI Pipelines, Kubeflow, or other cloud-native pipeline tools

Data engineering experience, particularly with Dataform or equivalent tools for preparing and transforming data for ML use cases

Leadership Expectations Prior experience leading a small team is strongly preferred

Direct report management or formal mentorship of engineers

This is a dev-lead position, not intended for an individual-contributor-only profile

Ideal Candidate Profile The ideal candidate combines hands-on production deployment experience across the GCP ML stack with data engineering skills and a track record of leading or mentoring other engineers. Candidates with purely IC-level experience or without production model deployment history will not meet the bar for this role.“ Talent Bridge employees are eligible for many benefit offerings such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short term disability, 401(k) and holiday pay!”