ML Infrastructure Architect — Distributed Systems

openteams; Washington; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTeams is building an open, owner-controlled AI platform. We seek a Distributed Systems ML Infrastructure Engineer to design core services for workflow orchestration, data ingestion, and model serving across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will implement API-first services, ensure reliability at scale, and operate governance and logging for security-critical workloads. Applicants must have US citizenship and eligibility for clearance.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• 6+ years of experience in distributed systems, platform or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads on a major cloud platform.
• Experience with managed Kubernetes services (e.g., Amazon EKS).
• Experience supporting ML workloads in production and model serving.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tools (Terraform, Helm).
• Ability to document interfaces, procedures, and validation results.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform services for workflow orchestration and data ingestion with APIs.
• Operate model gateway and serving services with policy enforcement and auditing.
• Maintain cloud-agnostic provider abstractions for deployment on AWS or other environments.
• Deploy releases into classified and controlled production environments and perform validations.
• Ensure environment parity and validate platform capacity under load.
• Document interfaces and architectural decisions clearly.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Python or Go

API design

Infrastructure as code

Production ML workloads

Distributed systems

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm

AWS or cloud platforms

Job description

OpenTeams is building an open, owner-controlled AI platform. We seek a Distributed Systems ML Infrastructure Engineer to design core services for workflow orchestration, data ingestion, and model serving across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will implement API-first services, ensure reliability at scale, and operate governance and logging for security-critical workloads. Applicants must have US citizenship and eligibility for clearance.