Freelance ML Engineer — Vertex + Gemini enterprise tools

Negev Cloudworks is hiring a Senior Freelance ML Engineer — Vertex + Gemini enterprise tools on the Cloud ML team (Remote · Tel Aviv, Israel). This is a hands-on role in LLM & generative AI—not a generic “AI enthusiast” post.

You will own LLM features, retrieval, agents, and evaluation end to end: problem framing, offline evaluation, safe rollout, and iteration from production signals. Success is measured with clear metrics (quality, latency, cost, or business KPIs)—not slide decks alone.

Negev Cloudworks — 4-month contract integrating Gemini function-calling with internal CRM APIs on GCP.

Israel remote within IL time zones.

Negev Cloudworks needs someone who can move LLM features, retrieval, agents, and evaluation from experiment to production—with tests, monitoring, and stakeholder-ready communication.

The Cloud ML group partners closely with product and domain experts; you will translate ambiguous requirements into measurable ML or LLM outcomes.

What you will do

• Design and ship LLM features, retrieval, agents, and evaluation with offline evals, dashboards, and rollback plans.
• Improve datasets, labeling, and metrics that correlate with user or business outcomes.
• Review model changes for safety, bias, latency, and infrastructure cost before wide release.
• Document decisions so on-call, support, and compliance teams can act without guesswork.
• Collaborate async with written specs, demos, and recorded design reviews.

What we look for

• Demonstrated production use of core skills such as Python, OpenAI API, LangChain, SQL—with repos, writeups, or metrics we can verify.
• Comfort operating the listed toolchain (Docker, Kubernetes) in real environments—not tutorials only.
• Ownership of at least one feature or model from design through post-launch review—including failure modes you handled.
• Clear communication on trade-offs (quality, cost, latency, safety) with product and non-technical stakeholders.
• Eligible to work in Israel (or remote policy as stated in the listing).

Benefits & ways of working

• Flexible invoicing for freelancers.