Lead Software Platform Engineer, MLOps

Job overview

The Lead Software Platform Engineer, MLOps role is listed onsite in Cambridge, MA, with a salary range of $200,000–$270,000 per year. TetraScience builds scientific data and AI cloud solutions for scientific and pharmaceutical customers. The role owns and scales the AI and data infrastructure that customers and engineering teams use to run production models and agents. It sets technical direction for model lifecycle, inference, security, evaluation, observability, and reliability in a regulated environment.

What you'll do

• Own AI/ML platform architecture and model and prompt lifecycle
• design real-time and batch inference
• integrate LLMs, RAG, and agent tooling
• build security, evaluation, observability, reproducibility, and deployment infrastructure
• lead design reviews and mentor engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

lead software platform engineer

mlops

ai/ml infrastructure

distributed systems

aws

python

typescript

cambridge ma

tetrascience

$200k–$270k/year

scientific data

llm

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Employer-paid benefits for eligible employees and immediate family, unlimited PTO, 401(k), life insurance, LTD/STD, flexible working arrangements, coaching and career development.

Why this role

Technical design authority for production AI/ML infrastructure delivered as a multi-tenant product for scientific and pharmaceutical customers.

About the employer

TetraScience is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.