BJAK is seeking a Founding Lead AI Engineer to build, scale, and lead the next generation of intelligent systems for financial access across Southeast Asia. This role blends deep technical expertise with hands-on leadership, reporting directly to the Head of AI, and involves writing production code, shaping strategy, mentoring engineers, and hiring.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and ship production-grade ML models for high-impact use cases.
- Lead model architecture, data pipeline design, and deployment strategies.
- Collaborate across product, engineering, and data teams to drive AI initiatives.
- Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle from data preparation to deployment and monitoring.
- Review code, guide projects, and mentor engineers through technical challenges.
- Champion experimentation, continuous learning, and AI best practices.
- Interview and evaluate candidates, contributing to technical hiring and team building.
- Stay ahead of ML advancements and bring cutting-edge solutions into production.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4–6 years of experience in AI/ML engineering with real-world deployment experience.
- Strong proficiency in Python is a must.
- Deep familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn.
- Solid understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle: data pipelines, training, validation, monitoring.
- Experience working on applied AI problems such as recommendation, fraud, risk, or NLP.
- Track record of technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Must be based in Indonesia and open to working remotely with regional teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with MLOps tooling like MLflow, Airflow, Docker, GCP/AWS.
- Familiarity with responsible AI practices including fairness, interpretability, and model governance.
- Startup or scale-up environment experience.
- Exposure to building internal tools, reusable ML components, or AI platforms.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn
- Tools & Platforms: MLflow, Airflow, Docker, GCP/AWS
Team & Environment
You will join a growing, lean, world-class AI engineering team and report directly to the Head of AI.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
- Fully remote and flexible work arrangement from anywhere in Indonesia.
- High ownership role with impact visible at a regional scale.
- Direct reporting line to Head of AI with exposure to senior leadership.
- Opportunity to lead and shape a growing AI engineering team.
- Fast-track career growth and learning opportunities in a high-speed environment.
- Collaborative, flat culture where ideas move fast and great work gets noticed.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position for candidates based in Indonesia.
BJAK is an equal opportunity employer.
