Senior ML Engineer – Remote, Databricks Pipelines

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Certifications covered

Birthday off

Extra vacation week

Referral bonuses

Maslow credits

Mutters' Trip

Job summary

Muttdata, a remote-first data science startup, is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own deployment, job configuration, and end-to-end operation of AI Factory products. You will ensure reliable, observable, and scalable pipelines across countries, working closely with development squads and platform teams.

We value strong ownership, operational rigor, and deep product knowledge as you diagnose runtime incidents and keep production pipelines healthy in a fast-paced, collaborative

Qualifications

• Proven experience orchestrating data/ML pipelines on Databricks (Jobs, Workflows, cluster policies).
• Solid CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps, gitflow, PRs), IaC with DABs, and code quality standards (black, isort, mypy).
• Advanced Python, SQL, Delta / Unity Catalog.
• Experience with multi-country schemas, drift/cost monitoring, and deployment automation.
• Experience developing AI agents / agentic infrastructure (e.g. Mosaic AI Agent Framework).
• Currently based in Mexico or a location within a similar time zone, allowing for strong overlap with Mexico working hours.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate production pipelines on Databricks Jobs, chaining tasks via depends_on and managing failure modes (ALL_SUCCESS / ALL_DONE).
• Configure and maintain deployments via Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs), promoting across dev → qa → prd targets, with resource/deployment files per country.
• Manage the lifecycle of models and artifacts in MLflow + Unity Catalog (registration, versioning, Champion/Challenger aliases, rollback).
• Ensure operational continuity: manage compute across workspaces, standardize cost-monitoring tags (FinOps), and integrate with AIOps/observability.
• Master the product end-to-end to diagnose runtime incidents and coordinate with development squads.

Skills

Databricks Jobs

Workflows

Cluster Policies

CI/CD

IaC

Python

SQL

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Tools

Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)

MLflow

Job description

Muttdata, a remote-first data science startup, is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own deployment, job configuration, and end-to-end operation of AI Factory products. You will ensure reliable, observable, and scalable pipelines across countries, working closely with development squads and platform teams.

We value strong ownership, operational rigor, and deep product knowledge as you diagnose runtime incidents and keep production pipelines healthy in a fast-paced, collaborative