Machine Learning Operations Engineer II

- Iterate on Kensho's ML processes to develop tools, services, and frameworks that make every stage of the ML workflow robust, auditable, and usable.

- Work closely with ML engineers to understand their unique processes, identify pain points, and form effective solutions.

- Empower engineers with the stable tooling necessary to rapidly experiment and actualize their research into demonstrable prototypes and mature products

- Provide resources and training for ML teams on best practices, enabling them to efficiently productionize their work to be leveraged by high-value products and services

- Evaluate, select and champion open source and third-party solutions, driving their adoption across teams and integrating into Kensho's existing platform ecosystem

- Ship scalable, efficient, and automated processes for model fine-tuning and reinforcement learning and for the evaluation of LLMs/Agents

- Improve LLM and Agentic observability to help monitor agentic applications in production, detecting performance, decay and drift issues

- Stay at the frontier by actively tracking emerging tools and frameworks, promote best practices and strengthen the technical expertise of the team with your unique skill set

- 2+ years of experience in ML infra, ML Ops, ML Engineering or some similar skillset

- Experience managing distributed systems with Kubernetes. It is important to understand Kubernetes concepts and trade-offs

- Cloud Platform (AWS) understanding. We utilize tools like EKS and managed ML services like Bedrock and SageMaker

- Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks and workflow orchestration (ie. Ray, Airflow)

- Familiarity with software engineering best practices in an ML context

- Ability to debug distributed systems across infrastructure, networking and application layers

- Excellent communication skills to drive adoption of new tools and best practices across multiple teams

- Someone who's very curious, driven, low-ego and eager to learn across a range of engineering disciplines, while being part of a fantastic team

- Infrastructure: Ray, Amazon EKS, Airflow, Jsonnet, Terraform

- Experience with Agentic AI systems, tools, frameworks and workflows

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At Kensho, we pride ourselves on providing top-of-market benefits, including:

- 26 weeks of 100% paid Parental Leave (paternity and maternity)

- Generous company matching on donations to non-profit charities

- Up to $20,000 tuition assistance toward degree programs, plus up to $4,000/year for ongoing professional education such as industry conferences

- Opportunity to expand professional network and participate in conferences and events