📝 Applied AI / Machine Learning Engineer, are you there?

Hey there! We're looking for an Applied AI / Machine Learning Engineer for a company developing AI-driven accessibility technologies focused on document understanding and remediation for blind and print-disabled users. If you are production-minded, hands-on with PyTorch and transformer architectures, keep reading!

🌎 100% Remote

💵 Salary in USD

📍 Latin America — Reporting to United States, EST

🕒 Contract, with possibility of longer-term collaboration

🇬🇧 Advanced English.

About our client 🤓

You will be working for our client, a technology company that is building AI-driven accessibility infrastructure focused on document accessibility, OCR enhancement, and semantic structure reconstruction for blind and print-disabled users around the world. They develop specialized multimodal models and are currently scaling their automated document remediation platform for production inference across server and edge environments.

About Athyna 🙋🏻

Athyna is a Global Talent Platform, helping align world-class talent with the best employment opportunities across the globe.

We believe in the future of work. That's why we are a 100% globally distributed team across 5 continents. We believe in people, and we value freedom, integrity, quality, and sustainability.

We're proudly carbon neutral as an organization and 5% of all revenue funds impact-driven startups & climate tech. We're very keen on social impact - we truly care about everyone on our team, and we want to make the world a better place for all of us.

In your day-to-day, you will 👇🏼

Optimize multimodal AI models for production inference across server and edge environments
Package and deploy transformer and vision-based models
Improve GPU efficiency, throughput, and latency
Apply quantization and model optimization techniques
Build scalable inference pipelines
Support document AI workflows including OCR, layout analysis, and semantic reconstruction
Collaborate closely with the internal engineering and AI development team

Skills you have 🚀

Strong Python experience
Experience with PyTorch
Familiarity with Hugging Face tooling and ecosystems
Experience deploying and optimizing AI/ML models in production
Experience with transformer architectures and/or computer vision models
Understanding of inference optimization techniques
Linux development experience
Experience working with GPU-based systems

Skills that will make you stand out 💥

Experience with multimodal AI systems
Experience with ONNX, TensorRT, vLLM, or similar inference frameworks
Document AI or OCR experience
Layout-aware model experience
Accessibility technology experience
AWS or cloud GPU deployment experience
Familiarity with NLP concepts and pipelines

You'll be entitled to 🙌🏼

💵 Salary in USD

🕛 Flexible working hours

🚀 Great opportunities for career growth

🤗 Opportunity to work in an amazing environment

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