Senior MLOps Engineer
Core
Maintain and improve software and data pipelines, automate testing and releases, and resolve production issues for the U.S. Census Bureau's AWS-based LLM Autocoder.
Role type
Senior MLOps Engineer
Builds
Reliable, observable, and recoverable ML pipelines for the American Community Survey (ACS) and related applications.
Domain
Government / Federal Statistics / Large Language Models (LLM)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
AWS, Linux, Python, shell scripting, CI/CD, Git, automated testing, ML artifact versioning, production troubleshooting, operational documentation
Preferred skills
LLM inference workflows, batch classification pipelines, infrastructure as code, containers, managed AWS AI/ML services
Technologies
AWS, Linux, Python, Git, CI/CD tools
Responsibilities
Maintain and improve software and data pipelines and CI/CD workflows; Version and trace code, model identifiers, prompts, configurations, data dependencies, and evaluation artifacts; Automate build, test, packaging, and deployment steps; Monitor processing health, failures, latency, throughput, and resource use; Diagnose production incidents and pipeline failures; Prepare release and rollback procedures; Apply access, secrets, logging, and sensitive-data handling controls
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC