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As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

The Autonomy org at Rivian is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, MLOps to join the Data team. In this role, you will be the bridge between infrastructure and Deep Learning. You will architect and build the platforms that enable our Research and Perception scientists to iterate faster. This candidate needs a deep understanding of distributed training orchestration, model serving, GPU acceleration, and the full ML lifecycle. You will be responsible for building complex, mission-critical ML infrastructure that powers Rivian's autonomous capabilities.

You will collaborate with Autonomy researchers, Product Management, and Infrastructure partners to leverage best practices and scale Rivian’s model training platform (on EKS/Ray) , inference pipelines , and experiment tracking systems for the continuous improvement of the Autonomy stack of Rivian.

• Architect Training Platforms: Lead the design and implementation of large-scale distributed training clusters using Kubernetes (EKS) and framework-native distributed strategies (e.g., PyTorch Distributed, Ray Train).
• Orchestrate GPU Resources: Optimize GPU utilization and scheduling logic (using tools like Kueue, Volcano, and Karpenter) to maximize training throughput and minimize idle costs across thousands of GPUs.
• ML CI/CD (CT/CD): Own the pipelines for Continuous Training and Continuous Deployment. Automate the path from code commit, training job, model evaluation ,model registry ,deployment.
• Model Serving Infrastructure: Build and optimize high-throughput, low-latency inference services using technologies like NVIDIA Triton, TorchServe, or vLLM.
• Observability for ML: Implement monitoring specifically for ML workloads, including GPU-level metrics, training stability, model drift, and inference latency (using Prometheus, Grafana, Weights & Biases, or similar).
• Developer Experience: Create abstractions and CLI tools that allow Data Scientists to launch experiments without needing deep Kubernetes expertise.
• Cost Optimization: Drive cost-efficiency strategies for AWS GPU instances (Spot instances, mixed-instance policies) and storage tiers.
• Fault Tolerance: Design checkpointing and recovery strategies for long-running training jobs to ensure resilience against node failures.

• 5+ Years of engineering experience, with at least 3+ years specifically in MLOps or ML Infrastructure.
• Deep Kubernetes Expertise: Extensive experience managing EKS for batch workloads, including familiarity with CRDs, Operators, and scheduling specifically for ML (e.g., KubeRay, MPIOperator).
• ML Frameworks: Strong familiarity with the operational side of PyTorch , TensorFlow, or JAX. You understand how distributed data parallel (DDP) and FSDP work at an infrastructure level.
• Distributed Compute: Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks like Ray , Spark , or Kubeflow .
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform, AWS CDK, or Helm for defining ML infrastructure.
• Cloud Native ML: Experience with AWS services specific to ML (SageMaker, FSx for Lustre, EFA/Elastic Fabric Adapter networking) or similar experience from GCP or Azure.
• Programming: Strong proficiency in Python (required for ML tooling) and Go (preferred for K8s controllers/infra).
• Model Lifecycle: Experience with Model Registries (MLflow or similar) and Feature Stores.
• Containerization: Expertise in optimizing Docker containers for GPU workloads (multi-stage builds, CUDA drivers, reducing image size).
• Debugging: Experience performing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on complex distributed systems (e.g., diagnosing NCCL communication hangs or OOM errors).

Bonus Points:

• Experience with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server or TensorRT optimization.
• Knowledge of high-performance networking (Infiniband, EFA, RDMA).
• Contributions to open-source MLOps projects (Ray, Kubeflow, etc.).

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