Junior Machine Learning / AI Engineer

About the job

We’re hiring a Junior ML/AI Engineer to help build the AI features that power Synqd — from smart scheduling suggestions to context-aware user prompts. You’ll work under the guidance of a senior ML architect and contribute to model prototyping and integration. This is a scoped, paid contract role capped at 100 hours.

Responsibilities:

• Develop lightweight ML models (classification, ranking, or clustering)
• Assist in building time management or user behavior prediction systems
• Integrate models into production backend services
• Perform basic feature engineering, testing, and validation
• Collaborate with frontend/backend devs for deployment

Qualifications:

• Proficient in Python and ML libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Experience with recommendation engines or behavioral ML models is a plus
• Understanding of overfitting, regularization, and model evaluation
• Familiarity with REST APIs and backend model integration
• Strong documentation and communication habits