Remote Lead MLOps Architect for AI Platform

Motion Recruitment; Cambridge (MA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead MLOps Engineer / Software Platform Engineer to design and scale cloud-native AI infrastructure for production AI workloads. The role requires guiding architecture decisions for large-scale platforms and mentoring multiple engineering teams.

Remote opportunity for Massachusetts-residing professionals, with emphasis on secure, multi-tenant environments and observability. Strong leadership and hands-on deployment of LLM-based systems are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software and infrastructure engineering experience.
• Proven expertise designing and scaling cloud-native distributed systems in production.
• Strong background leading technical architecture decisions for large-scale platforms.
• Experience building and operating AI/ML infrastructure as a customer-facing product.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting LLM-based applications in production.
• Deep knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompts, embeddings, and model lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of the organization’s AI and machine learning platform.
• Define architecture standards for model serving, agent execution, and scalable AI workloads.
• Manage model lifecycle processes including deployment, versioning, promotion, rollback, and governance.
• Build infrastructure supporting both real-time and batch AI processing.
• Design secure, multi-tenant AI environments with strong data isolation controls.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, testing pipelines, and release gates for AI systems.
• Establish observability, monitoring, and operational excellence standards.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
• Partner with engineering, security, and data teams to deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions.
• Lead design reviews and provide technical mentorship to engineering teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and make strategic build-versus-buy recommendations.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation, CI/CD improvements, and deployment practices.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

MLOps leadership

Python

TypeScript

LLM deployment

AWS

Docker

CDK

OpenAPI

RAG / prompts

Multi-tenant security

Observability

Tools

Docker tooling

CloudFormation

CDK

OpenAPI

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead MLOps Engineer / Software Platform Engineer to design and scale cloud-native AI infrastructure for production AI workloads. The role requires guiding architecture decisions for large-scale platforms and mentoring multiple engineering teams.

Remote opportunity for Massachusetts-residing professionals, with emphasis on secure, multi-tenant environments and observability. Strong leadership and hands-on deployment of LLM-based systems are essential.