Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Job overview

The Machine Learning Operations Engineer role is onsite in Mojave, CA, with compensation of $142,000–$165,000 per year. Stratolaunch develops reusable hypersonic flight-testing capabilities and the role supports AI capabilities across the company. The engineer builds and operates infrastructure, integrations, observability, and developer tools that make AI systems usable by vehicle design, manufacturing, flight-test, and business teams. The work includes operating ML, large language model, and retrieval-augmented generation workloads and integrating AI tools into internal workflows.

What you'll do

• Design, deploy, and operate infrastructure for ML, LLM, and RAG workloads, with a focus on AWS
• host, maintain, monitor, and optimize retrieval systems including Qdrant
• develop logging, observability, and alerting
• support model deployment, inference services, resource utilization, and production operations
• integrate commercial, third-party, open-source, and custom AI tools
• develop APIs, plugins, and reusable integrations
• collaborate on AI workflows and interfaces with existing applications and web infrastructure
• evaluate AI technologies with software, data, infrastructure, security, and domain teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

machine learning operations engineer

stratolaunch

mojave ca

onsite

full-time

mlops

aws

llm

rag

qdrant

python

apis

9/80 schedule

no travel

$142k–$165k/year

healthcare

401(k) match

tuition reimbursement

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs
• paid maternity and parental leave
• 50% company match per contributed 401(k) dollar up to $11,500
• tuition reimbursement.

Why this role

The posting specifies a 9/80 schedule and no travel required. Benefits listed include healthcare, paid maternity and parental leave, a 50% company match per contributed 401(k) dollar up to $11,500, and tuition reimbursement.

About the employer

Stratolaunch, LLC is hiring for this role. Industry: Space Research and Technology. Sector: 92.