Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Location: Dallas, Texas Type: Contract To Hire Visa: USC, GC, EAD (Only W2, No Sponsorship)

Responsibilities

• Optimize and maintain large-scale feature engineering pipelines using PySpark, Pandas, and PyArrow on Hadoop-based infrastructure.
• Refactor and modularize ML codebases to enhance reusability, maintainability, and performance.
• Collaborate with platform teams on compute capacity planning, resource allocation, and system upgrades.
• Integrate with existing model serving frameworks to support testing, deployment, and rollback processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production ML pipelines, ensuring high reliability, low latency, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to internal ML platforms by sharing insights, proposing improvements, and documenting best practices.
• Build near real-time ML pipelines using Kafka and Spark Streaming.
• Work with AWS and SageMaker MLOps ecosystem.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or MLOps roles.
• Strong programming expertise in Python, with hands-on experience in Pandas, PySpark, and PyArrow.
• Deep understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem, distributed computing, and performance tuning.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and best practices in ML environments.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools for ML pipeline health and performance.
• Strong collaboration skills with experience working in cross-functional teams (platform, data science, engineering).
• Experience contributing to or building internal MLOps frameworks/platforms.
• Familiarity with SLURM clusters or other distributed job schedulers.
• Exposure to Kafka, Spark Streaming, or other real-time data processing technologies.
• Understanding of ML lifecycle management, including versioning, deployment, and drift detection.