AI/ML Ops Engineer

Role Description

As AI/ML Ops Engineer, you will own the operational backbone of Blackpoint's AI/ML capability — taking models from training through production deployment and owning the full AI/ML loop across every pipeline the team runs at scale. You will be instrumental in building out this new function:

• Standing up deployment pipelines.
• Taking trained scripts and putting them on endpoints that can accept live requests.
• Ensuring every solution you ship is production-grade, highly available, and well monitored.
• Taking on ownership of testing across the board.
• Automating training, monitoring, and deployment pipelines across the AI lifecycle.

You will report to the Vice President of AI and Data and work closely with Engineering, the Security Operations Center (SOC), and the Adversary Pursuit Group (APG).

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on ML Engineering experience, including having personally trained and deployed models into a production environment.
• A well-architected mindset — built for efficiency, performance, security, and reliability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

• Experienced in Cloud-based ML Infrastructure (AWS).
• Model Development, Evaluation, & Deployment Operations (SageMaker, Bedrock).
• Inference Streams & Event-Driven Processing (Kafka, Spark).
• MLOps Workflows (MLFlow, Sagemaker Pipelines).
• Infrastructure as Code & Pipeline Automation (Terraform, AI CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
• ML Governance (Data, Model, & Feature Versioning, Monitoring & Testing).
• Containerized Services (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).
• Scripting Languages (Python, Bash).
• Query Languages (SQL, SparkSQL).
• GitFlow, CI/CD workflows & DevOps best practices.
• Experience with AI-Assisted development life cycle.
• Building high-availability, production-grade systems with strong visibility and alerting baked in from day one.

Nice to Have

• Transformer Neural Networks.
• Agile Scrum/Kanban.
• Anthropic, OpenAI, LiteLLM APIs and SDKs.
• Experience in Cybersecurity, IoT, or NLP fields.
• Grafana or CloudWatch (observability tooling).

How You'll Make an Impact

• Own the AI/ML loop end-to-end at scale — across all pipelines, from model training through deployment, monitoring, and retirement.
• Develop, optimize, and deploy ML models, drawing on direct, hands-on experience training models yourself.
• Design, build, and administer model-building and serving infrastructure.
• Implement ML workflows as containerized Infrastructure as Code, using Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Build and automate standardized container pipelines for training, feature engineering, and inference channels.
• Own test strategy across the full ML pipeline — model validation, integration, load, and deployment testing.
• Build visibility and alerting into every deployed pipeline.
• Develop ML governance utilities for oversight and administration of deployed infrastructure.
• Implement data, feature, and model lifecycle best practices.
• Contribute to AI architecture and design decisions.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Blackpoint Cyber's Security Operations Center (SOC), and the Adversary Pursuit Group (APG).

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans.
• Robust 401k plan.
• Discretionary Time Off.
• Other minor perks.
• Equity participation is available to employees globally.