ML Platform & MLOps Engineer (Databricks)

Diamondback E&P LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback E&P LLC seeks an ML Developer to establish development practices and platform foundations to move models from experimentation to governed production. The role focuses on Databricks, MLflow, AutoML, Unity Catalog, and Model Serving, coordinating with data science and IT to meet company objectives.

You will define model deployment, monitoring, and data/versioning standards, while driving reusable pipelines, CI/CD, and documentation in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks MLflow and AutoML.
• 3–5 years building, deploying, and operating ML or data-intensive systems in production.
• Strong Python with production-quality code.
• Strong SQL and Spark or similar distributed processing.
• Experience establishing or operating an MLOps workflow.

Responsibilities

• Establish the department’s MLOps standards, reusable pipelines, and production path.
• Productionize models using Databricks MLflow, AutoML, Unity Catalog, and Model Serving.
• Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for training and deployment.
• Govern the model lifecycle with tracking, versioning, lineage, and access control.
• Establish model and data monitoring, validation checks, and observability; support reliability of production ML systems.
• Enforce data and feature quality, schema validation, and data versioning.
• Author docs, architectures, and playbooks; lead code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to define requirements and drive framework adoption.
• Evaluate new tools and patterns, including LLM-assisted development workflows.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Git

CI/CD

MLOps

Databricks MLflow

AutoML

Unity Catalog

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Tools

Databricks MLflow

AutoML

Unity Catalog

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Diamondback E&P LLC seeks an ML Developer to establish development practices and platform foundations to move models from experimentation to governed production. The role focuses on Databricks, MLflow, AutoML, Unity Catalog, and Model Serving, coordinating with data science and IT to meet company objectives.

You will define model deployment, monitoring, and data/versioning standards, while driving reusable pipelines, CI/CD, and documentation in a collaborative environment.