Engineering Group Manager- MLOps

Aptiv PLC; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Education opportunities

Insurance

Meal cards

Wellbeing program

Employee assistance

Fitness access

Creche facility

Job summary

Aptiv is seeking an experienced MLOps Manager to build and operate scalable ML platforms for autonomous driving workloads. You will own AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production ML workflows in a safety‑critical automotive context.

You will collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and hardware teams, ensuring reliability, multi‑GPU training, and compliant data governance. Hybrid work and strong learning opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• 13+ years experience with AWS for ML workloads.
• Practical experience with multi-GPU / distributed training (Ray or equivalent).
• Proficient in Kubernetes / EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Airflow and MLflow for ML pipelines.
• Python for automation, pipelines and tooling.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub-based).

Responsibilities

• Build and operate MLOps platforms on AWS supporting autonomous driving ML workloads.
• Implement and maintain highly available, multi-zone training and deployment environments.
• Operate distributed, multi-GPU training setups (e.g., Ray clusters).
• Assist in maintaining infrastructure standards for compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform-level issues impacting ML productivity.
• Monitor ML pipelines, training jobs, deployed models and infrastructure; perform incident response.

Skills

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Multi-GPU / distributed training

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform

Airflow

MLflow

GitHub

AWS for ML workloads

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform

Airflow

MLflow

Python

GitHub

Job description

MLOps Manager

Help shape the future of mobility.

Imagine a world with zero vehicle accidents, zero vehicle emissions, and wireless vehicle connectivity all around us. Every day, we move closer to making that world a reality. Aptiv’s passionate team of engineers and developers creates advanced safety systems, high-performance electrification solutions and data connectivity solutions so that automakers can bring advanced capabilities to more people around the globe. This is how we enable sustainable mobility and help to prevent accidents caused by human error.

Your Role

MLOps Platform & Infrastructure

• Build and operate MLOps platforms onAWSsupporting autonomous driving ML workloads

• Implement and maintainhighly available, multi‑zonetraining and deployment environments

• Operatedistributed, multi‑GPU training setups (e.g., Ray clusters)

• Assist in maintaining infrastructure standards for compute, storage, networking, and security

• Troubleshoot and resolve platform‑level issues impacting ML productivity

AWS & Kubernetes Operations

• Deploy and operate ML workloads using:

  • Amazon EKS / Kubernetes

  • AWS VPCs, subnets, routing, and network isolation

  • S3 (including Intelligent‑Tiering)for large‑scale sensor and training data

  • AWS Lambdafor event‑driven ML and data workflows

  • AWS IoT resourcesmanaged via Terraform

• Contribute to platform resilience through:

  • Multi‑AZ deployments

  • Backup, recovery, and fault‑tolerance mechanisms

MLOps Pipelines & Tooling

• Implement and maintain ML pipelines using:

  • Apache Airflowfor orchestration

  • MLflowfor experiment tracking, model versioning, and lifecycle management

• SupportCI/CD pipelinesfor ML code, models, and infrastructure (GitHub‑based)

• Ensure ML workflows are:

  • Reproducible

  • Traceable

  • Auditable (aligned with automotive engineering expectations)

Machine Learning Enablement

• Support large‑scaledata ingestion and preprocessing pipelinesfor sensor‑heavy datasets

• Implementdata validation and data quality checks

• Help enforce train / validation / test split governance

• Partner with ML engineers to:

  • Improve training performance

  • Reduce infrastructure cost

  • Streamline evaluation and deployment workflows

Collaboration with ML & Autonomous Driving Teams

• Work closely with ML engineers and researchers developing:

  • Perception models (vision, sensor fusion, detection, tracking)

  • Behavioral and decision‑making systems

• Translate ML workloads and requirements into stable, production‑ready pipelines

• Adapt ML tooling and infrastructure to the realities ofsafety‑critical automotive systems

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

• Build and maintain monitoring and logging for:

  • ML pipelines

  • Training jobs

  • Deployed models and infrastructure

• Track system health, failures, performance regressions, and operational metrics

• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post‑mortems

• Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience

Your Background

Key ingredients for succeeding in this role are your:

• 13+ years experience ,Strong hands‑on experience withAWSfor ML workloads

• Practical experience with:

  • Multi‑GPU / distributed training(Ray or equivalent)

  • Kubernetes / EKS

  • Infrastructure as Code(Terraform)

  • AirflowandMLflow

• ProficientPythonfor automation, pipelines, and tooling

• Experience building and operatingCI/CD pipelines(GitHub)

Machine Learning Foundations

• Solid understanding of end‑to‑end ML workflows:

  • Data ingestion and preprocessing

  • Data validation and quality controls

  • Training, evaluation, and deployment

• Experience supporting ML teams running large‑scale experiments and production models

Automotive / Autonomous Systems Exposure

• Working knowledge of:

  • Perception systems

  • Behavioral or decision‑making ML components

• Prior experience inautomotive, ADAS, or autonomous drivingenvironments

• Awareness of constraints related to:

  • Safety‑critical systems

  • Real‑time or near‑real‑time performance

Why join us?

• You can grow at Aptiv.Aptiv provides an inclusive work environment where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity or beliefs.

• You can have an impact. Safety is a core Aptiv value; we want a safer world for us and our children, one with: Zero fatalities, Zero injuries, Zero accidents.

• You have support. We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family and your physical and mental health with a competitive health insurance package.

Your Benefits at Aptiv:

• Hybrid and flexible working hours;

• Higher Education Opportunities (UDACITY, UDEMY, COURSERA are available for your continuous growth and development);

• Life and accident insurance;

• Sodexo cards for food and beverages

• Well Being Program that includes regular workshops and networking events;

• EAP Employee Assistance;

• Access to fitness clubs (T&C apply);

• Creche facility for working parents;

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