Lead Software Platform Engineer, MLOps

Job overview

The Lead Software Platform Engineer, MLOps role is listed in San Mateo, CA; the posting also describes flexible working arrangements and remote work. The salary range is $200,000–$270,000 per year. TetraScience builds scientific data and AI cloud products used by scientists, including at large pharmaceutical companies. This engineer owns and scales the multi-tenant AI and data infrastructure that customers and internal engineering teams use to run models and agents. The role sets technical direction for production AI/ML workflows, with attention to security, evaluation, observability, reliability, and cost in a regulated environment.

What you'll do

• Own the AI/ML platform architecture and customer-facing service and API surface
• manage model and prompt lifecycle across Databricks MLflow and AWS Bedrock
• design inference for real-time and batch workloads
• integrate models and LLMs using RAG and agent tooling
• partner on platform security and tenant boundaries
• build evaluation, quality, and observability infrastructure
• support reproducibility, lineage, and audit trails
• contribute to infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation
• own production readiness with engineering teams
• lead design reviews, document architectures, mentor engineers, and evaluate emerging infrastructure.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

full-time

lead software platform engineer

mlops

ai/ml infrastructure

distributed systems

multi-tenant platforms

llm

rag

aws

databricks mlflow

san mateo ca

remote work arrangement

$200k–$270k

tetrascience

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• 100% employer-paid benefits for eligible employees and immediate family members
• unlimited paid time off
• 401(k)
• company-paid life insurance and LTD/STD
• flexible working arrangements including remote work
• career coaching and growth.

Why this role

The role combines distributed systems and production MLOps for a multi-tenant product serving scientific data workflows. The posting lists a $200K–$270K salary range, remote work arrangements, unlimited PTO, and employer-paid benefits for eligible employees and immediate family members.

About the employer

TetraScience is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.