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Bjak is hiring a Founding AI Software Engineer (Remote)

BJAK is looking for a Founding AI Software Engineer to build AI systems that make insurance and financial services easier to access, understand, and afford for millions across Southeast Asia. You will design, build, and deploy the machine learning models that power personalization, automation, and insight generation.

What You'll Do

  • Work with product, data, and engineering teams to define ML goals and technical strategies.
  • Design, build, and deploy machine learning models that power personalization, automation, and insight generation.
  • Manage the ML lifecycle: data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment.
  • Build scalable ML infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
  • Integrate ML outputs into user-facing products and backend systems.
  • Stay current with AI/ML trends and apply relevant innovations into our stack.
  • Contribute to debugging, testing, and optimization of production ML systems.

What We're Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 2 - 4 years of experience in machine learning or backend software development.
  • Strong Python skills.
  • Experience using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
  • Solid understanding of ML workflows: data cleaning, model development, tuning, evaluation.
  • Familiar with model deployment, API development, or real-world ML integration.
  • Experience with tools like Google Colab, Jupyter, and cloud ML platforms.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Must be based in Vietnam and open to remote collaboration across time zones.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with NLP, computer vision, or recommendation systems.
  • Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Exposure to Docker, Git, or CI/CD tools.
  • Background working in a high-growth startup or agile product environment.

Technical Stack

  • Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Google Colab, Jupyter

Team & Environment

Fast-paced, flat team structure.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
  • Flexible, fully remote work arrangement from anywhere in Vietnam.
  • Direct impact - your work reaches millions of users across Asia.
  • Flat structure - your voice is heard, your contributions are seen.
  • Opportunities for rapid personal and technical growth.
  • Regional exposure and collaboration across Southeast Asia.

Work Mode

This is a fully remote position. You must be based in Vietnam.

BJAK values team members who take full ownership, are self-starters who figure things out fast, move with urgency, own problems end-to-end, bring a team-first attitude, push through chaos, and learn obsessively and share openly.

BJAK is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnMachine LearningDeep LearningComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingJupyterGoogle ColabAI Model DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringProblem Solving
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Bjak
Bjak is focused on providing access to affordable and sustainable financial services for people in ASEAN. Headquartered in Malaysia, Bjak is the largest insurance portal in Southeast Asia. Their main portal, Bjak.com, helps millions find the insurance policy with the best value and highest coverage. They invest in technology such as Custom API, trading systems, and data science to enable easy access to financial services.
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