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Lead MLOps Engineer (m/f/x)

Remote, Coimbra·Full-time·Added 8 days ago (last checked 28 Oct)

Agency
Randstad Portugal

1038 open roles

Our summary

Work mode
Remote (Coimbra)
Contract
Full-time
Experience
5+ years

Skills

This job advert was originally written in Portuguese.

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field;
  • +5 years of experience in similar roles, with a focus on software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or MLOps.
  • Demonstrated experience in the deployment and operation of machine learning models in production environments.
  • Strong programming skills, preferably in Python and in one or more additional modern programming languages.
  • Solid understanding of software engineering principles, APIs, distributed systems, and production environments.
  • Experience in the design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience in model lifecycle management, experiment tracking, and model versioning.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting for production systems.
  • Solid understanding of data pipelines, feature pipelines, and model training workflows.
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks and the operational challenges associated with their deployment.
  • Good understanding of security, access control, and software supply chain considerations.
  • Ability to solve complex problems in distributed production systems.
  • Ability to define technical standards and promote their adoption across engineering teams.
  • Experience in mentoring or technical leadership of other engineers.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across software, AI, data, and operations teams.
  • High sense of responsibility and ease in operating within a growing technology organization.
  • Fluent English level.

Nice to have

  • Experience in the aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or other mission-critical environments (is an advantage).

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

main benefits

  • Base remuneration (indicative salary range up to 70k/75k gross per year);
  • Meal allowance;
  • Health Insurance;
  • Other benefits.

The role

Randstad Digital is recruiting a Lead MLOps Engineer to join an IT startup developing AI/ML solutions for the aerospace sector.

What you'll do

key responsibilities

  • Lead the design and evolution of the MLOps architecture, tools, and operating model.
  • "Hands-on" profile in the development of infrastructure, deployment pipelines, automation, and production systems.
  • Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure necessary to develop, deploy, and operate ML models in production.
  • Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for AI and ML workloads.
  • Establish robust processes for model deployment, versioning, validation, promotion, and rollback.
  • Implement observability for models, data, and pipelines, including monitoring of performance degradation, data drift, and operational anomalies.
  • Ensure reproducibility across training, validation, and production environments.
  • Build and maintain tools for model registries, artifact management, and experiment tracking.
  • Work in close collaboration with AI/ML developers to improve the transition of prototype models to production-quality services.
  • Integrate ML capabilities into the company's broader software and data platform.
  • Support the scalable processing of large and heterogeneous datasets from multiple operational sources.
  • Improve infrastructure automation and reduce manual operational work.
  • Support deployment in cloud, private cloud, on-premises infrastructure, and secure or restricted environments, when necessary.
  • Contribute to the reliability, availability, security, and performance of the platform.
  • Establish appropriate logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing for ML-enabled services.
  • Define technical standards, architecture patterns, and best practices for AI in production and MLOps.
  • Contribute to architecture decisions regarding AI infrastructure, data pipelines, and deployment patterns.
  • Help ensure that AI-enabled systems meet operational requirements for traceability, scalability, and reliability.
  • Support incident investigation, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of ML systems in production.
  • Contribute to the management and support of the MLOps team and help strengthen this capability across the engineering organization.
  • Support the recruitment, onboarding, and development of additional MLOps engineers.
  • Help define the future structure, responsibilities, and operating model of the MLOps team.

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How you'll work

Working Arrangement: 100% remote

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