Software DevOps Engineer - Gen Software and ML software

The ePlane Company; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

The ePlane Company is hiring an experienced ML Platform Engineer to own the integrated DevOps and MLOps infrastructure for production AI systems. You will bridge software engineering, IT infrastructure, and AI model deployment, ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, and on-premise deployment readiness.

You will lead data pipelines, monitoring, and governance across data provenance and model explainability, coordinating with safety-critical practices and scalable cloud/on-prem hybrid

Qualifications

• Experience with production ML infrastructure.
• Proven ability to design and implement CI/CD for ML systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes cluster management and on-prem/cloud hybrid infra.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ML data pipelines for training, validation, and retraining.
• Instrument and manage health of AI/ML capabilities in production (drift, latency, data quality).
• Create CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, rollback, and A/B testing infra.
• Manage container orchestration and server-side configs for internal tools and ops suites.
• Lead feasibility and implementation of on-premise AI deployment.
• Oversee governance docs for data provenance, model architecture, explainability, and oversight.

Skills

MLOps

CI/CD for ML

Kubernetes

Docker

Model monitoring

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

MLflow

DVC

Weights & Biases

Job description

The ePlane Company is at the forefront of India's urban air mobility revolution. Incubated at IIT Madras, we are a deep-tech startup dedicated to designing and building the world's most compact electric flying taxi. Our mission is to make door-to-door flying a reality, drastically reducing commute times and decongesting our cities for a cleaner, greener future. We're a passionate team of engineers, designers, and visionaries working on cutting-edge technology, and we're looking for brilliant minds to help us take flight.

About The ePlane Company

The ePlane Company is at the forefront of India's urban air mobility revolution. Incubated at IIT Madras, we are a deep-tech startup dedicated to designing and building the world's most compact electric flying taxi. Our mission is to make door-to-door flying a reality, drastically reducing commute times and decongesting our cities for a cleaner, greener future. We're a passionate team of engineers, designers, and visionaries working on cutting-edge technology, and we're looking for brilliant minds to help us take flight.

Chart the Course for the Future of Flight

We are looking for a person with a deep understanding of the tooling and lifecycle of ML based systems algorithms including taking them from prototype to production. The selected candidate will own the integrated DevOps and MLOps infrastructure. You will bridge the gap between software engineering, IT infrastructure, and AI-driven model deployment. This also involves work that makes our entire CI/CD pipeline from general software services to safety-critical AI/ML models robust, scalable, compliant, and qualified for regulated engineering processes. This includes instrumenting and hardening live capabilities, and the strategic work of designing a path toward on-premise deployment and formal AI qualification.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines for model training, validation, and continuous retraining
• Instrument, monitor, and manage the operational health of the AI/ML capabilities in production including performance, drift, latency, and data quality.
• Build CI/CD pipelines, model versioning, rollback procedures, and A/B testing infrastructure
• Manage the container orchestration layer and server-side configurations to ensure high availability for internal tools and product operations suites
• Lead the feasibility assessment and the implementation of on-premise AI deployment
• Own the qualification and governance documentation process across data provenance, model architecture, explainability, and human oversight procedures, robustness testing with applicable regulatory frameworks
• Establish and operate a recurring governance review process across all deployed capabilities

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years MLOps or ML infrastructure engineering with production systems experience
• CI/CD design and implementation for ML systems (MLflow, DVC, Weights & Biases, or equivalent)
• Model monitoring: drift detection, performance degradation alerting, data quality checks
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster management, service mesh, and cloud/on-prem hybrid infrastructure
• Proven experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines for both non-ML software and ML models
• Containerised ML deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying ML systems in Safety-critical or regulated domain background where AI output quality must be explainable
• Familiarity with change management processes in regulatory environments
• RAG system infrastructure experience at scale
• Cloud compute job queue management for computationally intensive workloads
• On-premise ML/AI deployment experience: quantisation, inference optimisation, GPU cluster management