Freelance Senior ML / AI Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop core product functionality, improving AI agent capabilities, and bringing new AI features to production. You will work closely with the ML team to extend agent infrastructure, evolve hybrid human-expert workflows, and design robust observability metrics to ensure top-tier system reliability.

• Extend the agent’s capabilities and add new product features to improve user experience - from clarifying task requirements to working with final results;
• Improve collaboration between the agent and human experts, evolving hybrid workflows and balancing quality and speed;
• Contribute to our agent infrastructure: tools, environments, internal knowledge, and third-party integrations;
• Design and implement observability metrics for agent quality and overall system reliability;
• Develop and maintain production services in Python.

Qualifications

• Extensive background (5+ years) in software engineering, featuring advanced proficiency in Python programming;
• Proven track record of at least 2 years building and launching autonomous AI agents;
• Deep enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and a drive to apply disciplined engineering standards to machine learning;
• Competency in architecting high-scale backend systems and refining software delivery workflows;
• Fluency in English at a B2 level or above.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience utilizing Java or C++;
• Strong foundation in machine learning acquired through rigorous academic research or substantial industry practice;
• Demonstrated success in deploying sophisticated LLM-based applications within production environments;
• Practical knowledge of orchestration technologies and diverse agentic development frameworks.

Benefits

• Freelance collaboration via the Ontop freelance platform.
• Flexible, fully remote work schedule.
• Opportunity to work on highly innovative projects at the leading edge of AI development, together with a genuinely dedicated and dynamic team of experts.
• Work on projects with customers that are AI industry leaders and well-known household names.
• Friendly community.