Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Overview

Red Hat OpenShift AI team is looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer with Kubernetes and MLOps experience to join our engineering team. This role focuses on creating a platform, partner ecosystem, and community to help enterprise customers solve problems and accelerate business success using AI. You will contribute to the development of the OpenShift AI product, participate in open source communities, and help shape the next generation of MLOps platforms while fostering a culture of continuous learning and career development.

What You Will Do

• Play a key leadership role within a talented group of engineers, outlining a vision and roadmap for the training and experimentation stack in OpenShift AI
• Collaborate with the AI Innovation team to deliver LLM training, continual learning, and reinforcement learning techniques across the product portfolio
• Embrace an upstream first mindset to influence MLOps communities such as Kubeflow
• Liaise with stakeholder groups and cross-functional teams to deliver new product features
• Ensure non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, and maintainability are met
• Use CI/CD best practices to deliver solutions as productization efforts into OpenShift AI
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by sharing recommendations and technical knowledge with team members
• Collaborate with product management and other engineering teams to analyze and clarify business requirements
• Communicate effectively to stakeholders and team members to ensure visibility of development efforts
• Provide thoughtful and timely code reviews
• Represent OpenShift AI in external engagements including industry events, customer meetings, and open source communities
• Mentor, influence, and coach a distributed team of engineers

What You Will Bring

• Advanced experience in Python and Go
• Advanced experience developing applications in Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other cloud-native technologies
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt and guide others on using new tools and technologies
• Proven ability to innovate and a passion for staying at the forefront of technology
• Experience with distributed systems (especially those that run on Kubernetes) and troubleshooting them
• Autonomous work ethic, thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience providing technical leadership in a global team and delivering on a vision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality
• Open to exploring and experimenting with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development
• Ability to define and scale testing, automation, and reproducibility standards across ML systems

The Following Will Be Considered a Plus

• Practical experience prioritized over formal degrees
• Understanding of how Open Source communities work
• Experience working with upstream communities
• Familiarity with the MLOps lifecycle, with emphasis on model training
• Experience writing Kubernetes/OpenShift controllers and operators
• Experience writing SDKs in Python or other languages

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, delivering Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies across 40+ countries. We support flexible work environments and encourage associates to bring their best ideas. We are committed to an open and inclusive culture where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone.

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