Machine Learning Engineer - NLP Specialist - Remote

Overview

Tekmetric is a cloud-based auto-repair shop management system with an easy-to-use workflow and a modern approach to customer care. Tekmetric champions transparency, integrity, innovation—and above all—a service-mentality that puts customers first.

In Short

• We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, document classification, and large-scale data processing.
• You will work on applying LLMs, NLP, and ML techniques to categorize and process extracted data.
• Your work will power an intelligent search system and help organize massive amounts of structured and unstructured information.
• Develop and train NLP & ML models for document classification, text extraction, and entity recognition.
• Experiment with LLMs (GPT, Llama, Claude, etc.), embeddings, transformers, and vector databases.
• Build pipelines that combine rule-based methods with ML models for classification.
• Apply OCR techniques to extract structured data from PDFs and scanned documents.
• Fine-tune and optimize models for scalability, latency, and cost-efficiency.
• Deploy ML models in production using Kubernetes, AWS (SageMaker, Lambda, EMR), and Airflow.
• Collaborate with data engineers to integrate ML models into search APIs and data pipelines.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Machine Learning & NLP.
• Strong Python skills and experience with ML/NLP frameworks like Hugging Face, spaCy, NLTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch etc.
• Familiarity with transformer-based architectures (BERT, GPT, T5, etc.).
• Experience with text classification, embeddings.
• Knowledge of OCR (Tesseract, Amazon Textract, or OpenCV-based techniques).
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, Kubernetes, and workflow orchestration (Airflow).
• Strong understanding of information retrieval, search ranking, and ElasticSearch/OpenSearch.

Benefits

• Flexible and remote work opportunities.
• Generous PTO.
• Exceptional leave programs for all of life’s moments: maternity, paternity and parental bonding, as well as medical leave to care for yourself or loved ones.
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 6% Match.
• Employer covered STD, LTD, Life and AD&D Insurance Programs.
• Up to $60 monthly for wellness expenses and activities.
• Education Assistance- includes undergraduate/graduate courses and continuing education.