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ML Engineer
Builds and ships production machine learning systems
Salary (MY)
RM 10k – 22k / mo
Mid to senior. Junior roles start from RM 6k.
Key skills
A typical day
Monitoring review
Admin / opsCheck model performance dashboards. Flag any drift in fraud detection recall — looks like a 0.8% drop over 48 hours, worth investigating.
Code review
CollaborationReview two PRs from junior engineers. One has a subtle data leakage issue in the feature pipeline. Leave detailed comment explaining why it matters in production.
Experiment analysis
Deep workNew model architecture finished training overnight. 3% improvement on validation set but 40% slower at inference. Write up trade-off analysis for the team.
Cross-functional sync
CollaborationProduct wants new feature in three weeks. Honest answer is six. Negotiate scope — trimming three requirements gets it to four weeks without compromising quality.
Deep engineering work
Deep workRedesigning feature store to support real-time lookups for the fraud model. This is the work that moves the architecture forward. Block calendar, mute Slack.
Documentation
Admin / opsWrite runbook for the new serving infrastructure. Unglamorous. Essential. Saves hours of debugging at 2 AM when something inevitably breaks.
The honest realities
How people get here
Software engineer or data scientist who moved into productionisation. CS or EE background most common but not required.
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