Principal MLOps Engineer, AI Inference

Job Overview

At Red Hat we believe the future of AI is open and we are on a mission to bring the power of open-source LLMs and vLLM to every enterprise. Red Hat Inference team accelerates AI for the enterprise and brings operational simplicity to GenAI deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research and product development teams to scale machine learning products for internal and external applications
• Create and manage model training and deployment pipelines
• Actively contribute to managing and releasing upstream and midstream product builds
• Test to ensure correctness, responsiveness, and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade Dev & Test pipelines
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team about market requirements and best practices
• Keep abreast of the latest technologies and standards in the field

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in MLOps, DevOps, Automation and modern Software Deployment practices
• Strong experience with Git, Github Actions including self-hosted runners, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and common technologies for automation and monitoring
• Highly experienced with administering Kubernetes/Openshift
• Familiar with Agile development methodology
• Experience with Cloud Computing using at least one of the following Cloud infrastructures: AWS, GCP, Azure, or IBM Cloud
• Solid programming skills especially in Python
• Solid troubleshooting skills
• Ability to interact comfortably with the other members of a large, geographically dispersed team
• Experience maintaining an infrastructure and ensuring stability
• Familiarity with contributing to the vLLM CI community is a big plus

About Red Hat

Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity.