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Our models retrain continuously and serve in real time; your mission is to make sure the whole ML lifecycle - data, features, training, deployment, and serving - runs smoothly, reliably, and transparently.\nYou will build the platform and standards that let our Data Scientists ship new models quickly and safely, working closely with Backend and Data Engineering.\nThis role is focused on the reliability and performance of the ML system. Model development and experimentation are owned by our Data Scientists, so you can concentrate on making the ML platform production-grade.\nWhat you will do\nML Lifecycle Reliability\nOwn the pipelines that continuously train, validate, and deploy models, so only models that meet quality standards reach production - and can be rolled back safely when they don't\nMake every production model versioned, traceable, and reproducible, and set the engineering standards that let new models move from experiment to production smoothly.\nObservability\nBuild end-to-end visibility into data, features, models, and serving, so issues are detected and resolved before they impact the business\nLead ML-related incident response and drive root-cause fixes that prevent recurrence.\nServing Performance\nPartner with Backend to keep model serving fast, stable, and cost-efficient as traffic and model complexity grow.\nFeature Platform\nCollaborate with Data Science, Data Engineering, and Backend on the design and rollout of a centralized feature store, so features are defined once and served consistently across training and inference.\nWhat you need\nTechnical Skills\n3+ years in ML engineering, MLOps, or backend/data engineering supporting ML systems in production\nStrong Python and software engineering practices - 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