Upwork is seeking a Principal ML Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable ML infrastructure components to support the company's machine learning initiatives.
Requirements
- Senior/Leadership level experience in ML infrastructure engineering, ideally at an innovative technology company.
- Solid foundation in software engineering and ML concepts.
- Compute: AWS, EKS, Databricks
- Data: Snowflake, S3, SQLMesh, Feast
- Workflow Automation: Airflow
- Experiment Tracking: Weights & Biases, MLflow
- LLM Inference: Fireworks, in-house deployment on EKS
Responsibilities
- Own technical workstreams from start to finish, contribute to the team’s product roadmap, and be responsible for major technical decisions and tradeoffs.
- Design, implement, and optimize distributed systems and infrastructure components to support large-scale machine learning workflows.
- Develop and maintain frameworks, libraries, and tools to streamline the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
- Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure systems that meet the performance and scalability requirements of production machine learning workloads.
- Collaborate and publish with machine learning researchers and data scientists on novel research and translate research into scalable and efficient software solutions.
- Stay current with the latest advancements in machine learning infrastructure, distributed computing, and cloud technologies, and integrate them into our platform to drive innovation.
- Mentor teammates, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
Other
- Proven Impact: Show us your track record of delivering impactful solutions.
- Innovative Thinker: Bring creativity and fresh ideas to the table.
- Collaborative Mindset: Strong communication and teamwork skills are a must.
- Continuous Learner: Stay updated with the latest advancements in the field of AI.
- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for both you and your family
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) plan with matching contributions
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
