ML & LLM Ops Software Engineer
Company: Spector.ai
Location: Bengaluru
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-10
About this role
### Role Description
We are seeking an experienced ML & LLM Ops Engineer to own the operational backbone of our ML and GenAI platform, taking models from experimentation to reliable, production-grade systems and keeping them healthy over time. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a startup and can make ML and GenAI run reliably at scale, including in the on-prem and edge environments common to industrial customers.
### You will:
- Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle of ML and LLM systems.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for model training, deployment, and serving.
- Run quality monitoring, drift detection, and observability for models in production.
- Operate LLM Ops workflows: prompt versioning, evaluation, guardrails, and inference optimization.
- Ensure reliability, security, and reproducibility using best-in-class ML Ops and LLM Ops practices.
### Must Have:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or higher, plus 3+ years in ML Ops, ML platform, or ML infrastructure engineering.
- Strong experience deploying, serving, and maintaining ML models in production.
- Hands-on experience with MLflow and CI/CD automation for ML.
- Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes/K3s.
- Experience with major cloud infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and AWS, and with Databricks.
- Experience operating LLM applications (inference serving, evaluation, guardrails) and model quality monitoring.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, ideally in Python.
- Ownership mindset: self-motivated, adaptable, and driven to take projects from concept to production.
### Preferred to have:
- Experience deploying open source LLMs (e.g., Llama, Mistral, Qwen) to on-prem or edge machines.
- Experience with inference serving frameworks such as vLLM, TGI, Triton, or Ollama.
- Experience running models in air-gapped or resource-constrained environments.
- Experience operating ML systems for real-time time series data (sensor/IoT).
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