MLOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Professional Development Opportunities

On-Site Parking

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Staff MLOps Engineer to own the production lifecycle of computer vision models in a robotics and automotive technology startup in Woburn, MA. This senior role combines hands-on engineering with cloud architecture and MLOps leadership.

You will scale MVP to production, design GPU-accelerated inference, CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and work across GCP, Docker, Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow. On-site collaboration with hardware and field teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Several years of experience owning machine learning systems in production.
• Proven experience taking computer vision or ML pipelines from prototype through production scale.
• Deep experience with segmentation and classification models, preferably in multi-stage pipelines.
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience, preferably with GCP.
• Experience with Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Docker.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Production experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Hands-on experience with model serving and optimization.
• Experience with technologies such as Triton, TorchServe, ONNX, TensorRT, quantization, or similar platforms.
• Experience owning production deployments, incident response, rollback procedures, and on-call support.
• Experience building data collection, labeling, and dataset versioning workflows.
• Experience developing reproducible model evaluation and regression testing systems.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with CI/CD automation such as GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of the trade-offs between model accuracy, latency, infrastructure cost, and reliability.
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and operation of the company’s multi-stage computer vision inference pipeline.
• Re-architect the current MVP infrastructure into a scalable production serving platform.
• Design containerized inference infrastructure with GPU acceleration, queueing, batching, and autoscaling where appropriate.
• Own model deployment, versioning, staged rollouts, canary testing, shadow evaluation, and rollback.
• Build the data and model improvement lifecycle from field data collection through labeling, training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Establish dataset versioning and reproducible evaluation processes.
• Monitor model performance and identify drift or degradation in production.
• Analyze segmented model performance and investigate real-world failures.
• Define and monitor commercial ML metrics including false positives, false negatives, technician overrides, latency, and inference cost.
• Improve model performance through architecture selection, augmentation, hard-example mining, quantization, and distillation.
• Evaluate cloud versus on-device inference and help determine the right architecture.
• Build MLOps foundations including experiment tracking, reproducible training, model CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Partner with senior software engineers to establish cloud architecture and GCP best practices.
• Work with hardware and field teams to improve image capture quality, including lighting, focus, and probe positioning.
• Own production support and incident response for the ML platform.
• Participate in on-call responsibilities for inference availability.
• Identify technical risks and communicate architectural trade-offs to engineering and company leadership.

Skills

MLOps

GCP

Docker

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Model Serving

CI/CD

Terraform

GKE

Vertex AI

ONNX

TorchServe

Quantization

Monitoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a Staff MLOps Engineer to join an innovative Series B robotics and automotive technology startup in Woburn, MA. This is a full-time opportunity for a senior machine learning infrastructure engineer who wants to own the production lifecycle of computer vision models powering real-world automotive service applications. You’ll work across GCP, Docker, Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, model serving, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and scalable inference systems.

This is a true ownership role where you’ll take an existing machine learning product from MVP to production scale. You’ll own the architecture behind how computer vision models are deployed, monitored, evaluated, improved, and served to customers. The technology is already being used in real automotive service environments, so your decisions will have a direct impact on product performance, customer experience, and the company’s ability to scale. You’ll also serve as a senior cloud architecture voice alongside the broader engineering team, making this a great opportunity for someone who wants significant technical ownership without stepping away from hands-on engineering.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of professional engineering experience
• Several years of experience owning machine learning systems in production
• Proven experience taking computer vision or ML pipelines from prototype through production scale
• Deep experience with segmentation and classification models, preferably in multi-stage pipelines
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience, preferably with GCP
• Experience with Vertex AI, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, and Docker
• Strong Python development skills
• Production experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Hands-on experience with model serving and optimization
• Experience with technologies such as Triton, TorchServe, ONNX, TensorRT, quantization, or similar platforms
• Experience owning production deployments, incident response, rollback procedures, and on-call support
• Experience building data collection, labeling, and dataset versioning workflows
• Experience developing reproducible model evaluation and regression testing systems
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience with CI/CD automation such as GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of the trade-offs between model accuracy, latency, infrastructure cost, and reliability
• Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with on-device or edge inference
• Experience with Core ML, TensorFlow Lite, or ExecuTorch
• Experience building active learning or human-in-the-loop labeling systems
• Computer vision experience with smaller, long-tail, or industrial inspection datasets
• Experience integrating cameras, sensors, or other hardware with ML systems
• Robotics, IoT, or edge computing experience
• Experience with ROS or similar robotics platforms
• Experience integrating ML capabilities into mobile applications
• Automotive service, dealership, DMS, or automotive technology experience
• Experience working in an early-stage or high-growth startup
• Open-source contributions
• Experience collaborating closely with hardware and field operations teams

What You Will Be Doing

• Own the architecture and operation of the company’s multi-stage computer vision inference pipeline
• Re-architect the current MVP infrastructure into a scalable production serving platform
• Design containerized inference infrastructure with GPU acceleration, queueing, batching, and autoscaling where appropriate
• Own model deployment, versioning, staged rollouts, canary testing, shadow evaluation, and rollback
• Build the data and model improvement lifecycle from field data collection through labeling, training, evaluation, and deployment
• Establish dataset versioning and reproducible evaluation processes
• Monitor model performance and identify drift or degradation in production
• Analyze segmented model performance and investigate real-world failures
• Define and monitor commercial ML metrics including false positives, false negatives, technician overrides, latency, and inference cost
• Improve model performance through architecture selection, augmentation, hard-example mining, quantization, and distillation
• Evaluate cloud versus on-device inference and help determine the right architecture
• Build MLOps foundations including experiment tracking, reproducible training, model CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Partner with senior software engineers to establish cloud architecture and GCP best practices
• Work with hardware and field teams to improve image capture quality, including lighting, focus, and probe positioning
• Own production support and incident response for the ML platform
• Participate in on-call responsibilities for inference availability
• Identify technical risks and communicate architectural trade-offs to engineering and company leadership

Tech Breakdown

• 25% MLOps / Model Deployment & Serving
• 20% GCP / Cloud Infrastructure
• 20% Computer Vision / ML Engineering
• 15% Data Pipelines / Evaluation / Model Improvement
• 10% DevOps / Infrastructure as Code / CI/CD
• 10% Architecture / Technical Leadership

Daily Responsibilities

• 45% Hands-On Engineering
• 20% ML Infrastructure & Production Operations
• 15% Model Performance & Evaluation
• 10% Architecture & Technical Leadership
• 10% Cross-Functional Collaboration

The Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to own the ML platform for a product already being used by paying customers
• Significant technical ownership over the company’s production architecture
• Opportunity to work with real-world proprietary computer vision data
• Hands-on exposure to robotics, automotive technology, computer vision, and edge computing
• Work alongside experienced robotics and software engineering professionals
• Collaborative, low-ego, high-intensity startup environment
• Prime Woburn, MA location with on-site parking
• Opportunity to have a direct impact on the company’s ability to scale

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k)
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Collaborative Startup Environment
• On-Site Parking

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.