CareerPlan

Staff MLOps Engineer

Palo AltoFull-time$230k–$270k2026-10-10 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Architect the operational backbone for a new Data Inference AI Pipeline serving satellite and AI-powered grid resilience products for electric utilities.

Role type

Staff MLOps Engineer (hands-on IC)

Builds

Scalable, cost-optimized, resilient model deployment and inference infrastructure on AWS SageMaker

Domain

Energy/Utilities + Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

AWS SageMaker, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD for ML, autoscaling, cost optimization, disaster recovery, model monitoring, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Large imagery/video/3D sensor data pipelines, multimodal data, MLOps from scratch, model drift detection, GPU cost optimization, regulated enterprise domains

Technologies

AWS SageMaker, Kubernetes, Docker, Inferentia/Trainium

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end model deployment pipelines (packaging, versioning, rollout, rollback); Design inference infrastructure for scalability and elasticity; Instrument and optimize cost-per-inference metrics; Design failover and disaster recovery procedures; Partner with Data Science and Web Application teams to ship models; Serve as technical authority on MLOps practices

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC