Founding Lead AI Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Founding Lead AI Engineer at BJAK, you will play a pivotal role in building, scaling, and leading the next generation of intelligent systems that improve financial access across Southeast Asia.

In Short

• Design and deploy core AI systems for millions of users.
• Drive technical execution and engineering standards.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers.
• Contribute to hiring and scaling a high-performance AI team.
• Build production-grade ML models for impactful use cases.
• Collaborate across teams to drive AI initiatives.
• Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle.
• Champion best practices in AI.
• Stay updated with ML advancements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong proficiency in Python.
• 4–6 years of AI/ML engineering experience.
• Familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle.
• Experience with applied AI problems.
• Technical leadership and mentoring experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Must be based in the UK and open to remote work.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Fully remote and flexible work arrangement.
• High ownership role with regional impact.
• Direct reporting line to Head of AI.
• Opportunity to lead a growing AI engineering team.
• Fast-track career growth opportunities.
• Collaborative culture where great work is recognized.