MLOps Engineer

Location: On-site, Santa Clara, CA

Our client is expanding a high performance AI infrastructure environment that supports large scale machine learning workloads for enterprise and emerging AI applications. They are seeking an experienced MLOps Engineer to help build, automate, and optimize the operational backbone behind distributed GPU computing environments. This is an opportunity to work alongside experienced infrastructure and AI engineering teams while solving complex challenges involving model deployment, orchestration, automation, and production reliability.

This Role Offers

• Opportunity to work on advanced GPU infrastructure supporting large scale AI initiatives.
• Highly collaborative engineering culture with significant technical ownership.
• Exposure to modern open source AI frameworks and distributed computing technologies.
• Competitive compensation package with comprehensive benefits.
• Long term career growth within an organization investing heavily in AI infrastructure.

What You Will Do

• Design, maintain, and improve production infrastructure supporting distributed GPU based machine learning workloads.
• Build and optimize automated ML workflows using orchestration platforms such as Kubeflow, Airflow, or similar technologies.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain open source large language models within production environments while ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Orchestrate AI workloads across Kubernetes, SLURM, Ray, and comparable distributed computing platforms.
• Develop Python based automation to streamline infrastructure management, deployment processes, and operational workflows.
• Monitor GPU resource utilization, improve scheduling efficiency, and help maximize overall infrastructure performance.
• Partner closely with software engineers, AI researchers, and infrastructure teams to transition experimental models into reliable production systems.
• Create operational documentation, automation tools, and deployment standards that improve platform reliability and supportability.
• Provide technical guidance to internal stakeholders and customer facing teams regarding AI infrastructure capabilities and deployment best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Machine Learning Operations.
• At least two years of hands on experience supporting production GPU or AI infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated production experience orchestrating distributed GPU workloads using Kubernetes, SLURM, Ray, or similar technologies.
• Experience building and maintaining production ML pipelines using Kubeflow, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration platforms.
• Proven experience deploying and supporting open source foundation models such as Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, or similar large language models.
• Strong Python programming and automation experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering organizations and enterprise customers.
• Previous experience working within an AI focused organization, GPU cloud provider, or comparable AI infrastructure environment.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with model serving optimization frameworks and inference acceleration technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure observability, monitoring, and performance analysis tools.
• Knowledge of distributed GPU networking and large scale compute environments.
• Experience supporting production AI platforms throughout the complete model lifecycle.

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