Principal Software Developer- MLOps Platform

Autodesk; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Software Developer focusing on AI/ML. This role involves designing and managing software systems for an innovative AI/ML platform, mentoring team members, and collaborating across diverse teams to optimize performance and scalability. With a strong emphasis on MLOps, you'll leverage your expertise in software development and cloud technologies to shape the future of AI/ML capabilities. If you're passionate about transforming ideas into reality and want to be part of a culture that values authenticity and innovation, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software development with MLOps focus.
• Hands-on coding in Golang, Python, and Java required.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage software systems for AI/ML Platform.
• Mentor team members and enhance expertise through reviews.
• Collaborate across teams to support ML model deployments.

Skills

MLOps

Data Engineering

DevOps

Golang

Python

Java

Distributed Data Processing

Creative Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Airflow

MLflow

Kubeflow

TensorBoard

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD87574

25WD87574, Principal Software Developer- MLOps Platform

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our platform team focusing on AI/ML Platform (AMP). This team builds and maintains central components to fast track the development of new ML/AI models such as model development studio, feature store, model serving, and model observability. The ideal candidate would have a background in MLOps, Data engineering, and DevOps with experience in building high-scale deployment architectures and observability. As an important contributor to our engineering team, you will help shape the future of our AI/ML capabilities, delivering solutions that inspire value for our organization. You will report to a manager.

Responsibilities

• System design: You will design, implement, and manage software systems for the AI/ML Platform, orchestrating the full ML development lifecycle for the partner teams.
• Mentoring: Spreading your knowledge, sharing best practices, and conducting design reviews to enhance team expertise.
• Multi-cloud architecture: Define components that leverage strengths from multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) to optimize performance, cost, and scalability.
• AI/ML observability: Build systems for monitoring the performance of AI/ML models and finding insights on the underlying data such as drift detection, data fairness/bias, and anomalies.
• ML Solution Deployment: Develop tools for building and deploying ML artifacts in production environments, facilitating a smooth transition from development to deployment.
• Big Data Management: Automate and orchestrate tasks related to managing big data transformation and processing, building large-scale data stores for ML artifacts.
• Scalable Services: Design and implement low-latency, scalable prediction and inference services to support the diverse needs of our users.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate across diverse teams, including machine learning researchers, developers, product managers, software architects, and operations, fostering a collaborative and cohesive work environment.
• End-to-end ownership: Take end-to-end ownership of the components and work with other engineers in the team including design, architecture, implementation, rollout, onboarding support to partner teams, production on-call support, testing/verification, and investigations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience: Over 8 years of experience in software development and engineering, delivering production systems and services.
• Prior experience working with MLOps teams at the intersection of expertise across ML model deployments, DevOps, and data engineering.
• Hands-on skills: Ability to fluently translate design into high-quality code in Golang, Python, and Java.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices, containerization, and orchestration tools such as CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps.
• Demonstrated knowledge of distributed data processing frameworks, orchestrators, and data lake architectures using technologies such as Spark, Airflow, and iceberg/parquet formats.
• Prior collaborations with Data Science teams to deploy their models, setting up ML observability for inference level monitoring.
• Exposure to building RAG based applications by collaborating with other product teams, Data scientists/AI engineers.
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills with the ability to break down problems into manageable components.
• Knowledge of Amazon AWS and/or Azure cloud for solutioning large-scale application deployments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, fostering teamwork and effective information exchange.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating with third-party vendors.
• Experience in latency optimization with the ability to diagnose, tune, and enhance the efficiency of serving systems.
• Familiarity with tools and frameworks for monitoring and managing the performance of AI/ML models in production (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, TensorBoard).
• Familiarity with distributed model training/inference pipelines using KubeRay or equivalent.
• Exposure to leveraging GPU computing for AI/ML workloads, including experience with CUDA, OpenCL, or other GPU programming tools.
• Exposure to ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, Pandas, and ScikitLearn.

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