Machine Learning Engineer

Branch is a leading AI-powered lending fintech with 50M+ downloads across India and Africa. We use alternative data and machine learning to expand financial access for millions of people traditionally excluded from the formal financial system.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of hands-on ML engineering experience in production environments
• Strong skills in building machine learning models using both structured and unstructured data
• Strong Python proficiency, including ML libraries (XGBoost, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy)
• Experience building or maintaining ML pipelines, training, evaluation, feature engineering, or model deployment
• Have a diverse range of data skills, including experimentation and statistics

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Fast-paced, collaborative, and high-autonomy work culture
• Hybrid work setup designed for flexibility and work-life balance
• Fully paid group medical insurance and personal accident insurance
• Generous paid time off, plus company-declared public holidays
• Fully paid parental leave for fathers and non-birthing parents (12 weeks), in addition to 26 weeks of statutory maternity leave
• Monthly WFH stipend, along with a one-time home office setup budget
• $500 annual professional development budget
• Quarterly social meet-ups and sponsored monthly team lunches