Descriptions
SUMMARY
OVERVIEW
- The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is seeking a Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Consultant to support the development, deployment, and operationalization of machine learning systems powering SIKIA.
- The consultant will work across speech, NLP, multimodal AI, and agentic pipelines, helping transition models and data systems from research prototypes into reliable and scalable solutions suitable for real-world field deployment.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support end-to-end MLOps workflows across data ingestion, validation, dataset versioning, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with research machine learning, software engineering, product, and field teams to ensure systems are robust, maintainable, and aligned with project needs.
- Support the integration of ML systems within the SIKIA platform, including deployment workflows connecting mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, speech and multimodal pipelines, disease detection and severity scoring workflows, backend services, and FAIRGrounds-integrated systems.
- Contribute to strengthening best practices around experiment tracking, model governance, CI/CD workflows, deployment automation, and ML system monitoring across NDIZI infrastructure.
REQUIREMENTS
- This is an 11-month full-time consultancy position, with potential for extension, based at the Alliance office in Arusha, Tanzania.
- The consultant will work across speech, NLP, multimodal AI, and agentic pipelines, helping transition models and data systems from research prototypes into reliable and scalable solutions suitable for real-world field deployment.
BENEFITS
- No information provided.
DEADLINE
- No information provided.
JOB TYPE
- Full-time consultancy position.
HOW TO APPLY
Use the application link below to open the official application form.
