Lead AI Engineer - Remote

Overview

At BJAK, we use AI to solve meaningful, high-impact problems — from fraud detection and risk modeling to hyper-personalized financial experiences that make insurance and financial services more accessible. We’re looking for a Lead AI Engineer to play a pivotal role in building, scaling, and leading the next generation of intelligent systems.

In Short

• You’ll design and deploy core AI systems that support millions of users
• You’ll partner closely with the Head of AI to drive technical execution and engineering excellence
• You’ll mentor junior engineers and elevate team performance
• You’ll play a central role in technical hiring and scaling the AI organisation
• Design, build, and ship production-grade ML models for high-impact use cases
• Lead model architecture decisions, data pipeline design, and deployment strategies
• Collaborate across product, engineering, and data teams to drive AI initiatives end-to-end
• Own the full ML lifecycle: data preparation, training, validation, deployment, monitoring
• Review code, guide technical projects, and mentor engineers through challenges
• Stay ahead of emerging ML techniques and bring cutting-edge approaches into production

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Over 4 years of AI/ML engineering experience with real-world deployment
• Deep expertise with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn)
• Solid understanding of end-to-end ML workflows: data pipelines, training, validation, monitoring
• Experience working on applied AI problems (e.g., recommendation, fraud, risk, NLP, etc.)
• Proven track record of technical leadership and mentoring
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working remotely with distributed teams across time zones

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses
• Remote-first work culture, with a hybrid work option for Malaysia-based team members
• High ownership and visibility - your work directly impacts regional-scale systems
• Direct reporting line to the Head of AI with leadership exposure
• Opportunity to build and grow a high-performance AI engineering team
• Fast career growth and learning in a high-velocity environment
• Flat, collaborative culture where ideas move fast and great work gets noticed