Senior MLOps Engineer

Senior MLOps Engineer

Guild is seeking a Senior ML Ops Engineer. As a Senior ML Ops Engineer you'll be pivotal in designing and implementing infrastructure and tooling that allows teams to efficiently develop, deploy, and iterate on machine learning models and AI agents. Your contributions will enable rapid innovation, consistent reliability, and effective scaling of Guild's AI capabilities. This is a role that will be pivotal in establishing Guild's ML / AI platform.

What You Bring

• 5–7 years of experience in MLOps, DevOps, software engineering, or related fields.
• Strong experience in building and maintaining scalable machine learning infrastructure and pipelines.
• Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), particularly in managed AI/ML services.
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Experience in MCP (model context protocol); any specific experience with Databricks MCP or AWS MCP is a plus
• Experience in model deployment frameworks and serving infrastructure (TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, FastAPI, etc.).
• Skilled in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and familiarity with CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Deep understanding of ML lifecycle management, monitoring, version control, and experiment tracking tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases).
• Strong coding skills, especially in Python, and familiarity with software engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for ML models in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain platforms for seamless deployment, management, and monitoring of ML models and AI agents.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines tailored specifically for AI and machine learning workflows.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to streamline ML model productionization.
• Ensure infrastructure is scalable, secure, and adheres to best practices in reliability and observability.
• Provide technical leadership in adopting best practices for model governance, versioning, testing, and validation.
• Continuously improve platform performance, efficiency, and ease-of-use to accelerate development cycles.
• Mentor team members on MLOps standards, practices, and emerging technologies.

We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including a base salary of $190,000 - 220,000 and stock options. Compensation offered will be based on a combination of factors such as experience, competencies, and internal equity.

Guild partners with the country's most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent, enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile.

By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth.

Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune's Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.'s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company's World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab's Best for the World (2019), among many others.

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth