Guild is building its MLOps function from the ground up and needs a technical leader to establish and manage the ML and AI agent platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Requirements
- 10+ years of combined experience in MLOps, DevOps, software engineering, or related technical roles.
- Proven leadership experience leading teams technically, mentoring engineers, and setting technical direction.
- Deep expertise with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially managed ML/AI services.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms.
- Advanced knowledge of ML serving frameworks (MLFlow, TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, FastAPI) and ML pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow).
- Understand MCP and have played with different MCP servers (github, Databricks, AWS)
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and extensive experience with CI/CD tools and automated testing.
- Expert-level skills in Python programming, software engineering best practices, and scalable systems design.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor the MLOps engineering team, providing technical direction, oversight, and professional growth.
- Architect, design, and lead the implementation of Guild's scalable ML and AI agent deployment platform.
- Drive adoption of best practices for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment specific to AI and ML workflows.
- Ensure robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability of production ML systems and AI agents.
- Collaborate closely with data science, engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align technical initiatives with strategic business objectives.
- Champion and advance Guild’s data governance, privacy, security, and compliance standards within the ML operational context.
- Continually assess and integrate cutting-edge technologies and practices to maintain Guild’s leadership in MLOps and AI infrastructure.
Other
- Ability to live and work full-time in one of the 32 listed states.
- Player / coach role, with a heavy emphasis on the player part in the beginning.
- Need to be able to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty.
