Senior MLOps Platform Lead

WHOOP; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Benefits

Job summary

WHOOP, based in Boston, MA, is seeking a Senior Engineer to act as Technical Lead for the MLOps team. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a core ML platform component and lead a small engineering team while guiding architecture decisions.

You will drive scalable ML infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and model lifecycle management, partnering with Data Science, AI, Product, and Engineering to deliver robust platform solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including ML infrastructure and cloud-based systems.
• Experience leading or managing engineers and mentoring teams.
• Proven track record delivering complex systems end-to-end.
• Strong AWS and distributed systems expertise.
• Proficiency in Python and Java; building APIs and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, roadmap, and delivery for a core component of WHOOP's ML platform, aligning with product and business priorities.
• Lead and manage a small team of engineers by setting direction, prioritizing work, and ensuring high-quality execution against roadmap goals.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of the team, including planning, unblocking, and maintaining a high bar for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Act as a player-coach by contributing hands-on to system design and critical components while mentoring engineers and supporting their growth through regular feedback and coaching.
• Design and evolve scalable ML infrastructure and CI/CD systems, enabling efficient model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Partner cross-functionally with Data Science, AI, Product, and Engineering to translate ambiguous requirements into robust platform solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

AWS

Distributed systems

Python

Java

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

WHOOP, based in Boston, MA, is seeking a Senior Engineer to act as Technical Lead for the MLOps team. You will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a core ML platform component and lead a small engineering team while guiding architecture decisions.

You will drive scalable ML infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and model lifecycle management, partnering with Data Science, AI, Product, and Engineering to deliver robust platform solutions.