Senior Staff AI/ ML Engineer

The role

This person will define the MLOps and AI agent strategy for the organization. They will design scalable architectures, lead FinOps initiatives, and mentor multiple engineering teams.

What you will do

• Define the MLOps strategy for the organization
• Design serving platforms for multiple frameworks and paradigms
• Establish CI/CD for ML models with formal governance
• Define the AI agent strategy for the organization
• Design architectures for orchestration, tool calling, memory, RAG, evals and guardrails
• Lead FinOps initiatives for ML to reduce computational costs
• Contribute to responsible AI policies including bias, fairness, safety and PII protection
• Mentor engineers and data scientists in MLOps and GenAI
• Write RFCs and ADRs to define technical standards
• Lead technical excellence and system observability

Required qualifications

• Experience defining MLOps strategy for multiple teams
• Experience designing production AI agents including guardrails, evals and observability
• Experience in FinOps for ML including GPU, spot instances and auto-scaling
• Experience in Model Governance including model cards, registries and approval workflows
• Experience defining or applying responsible AI policies
• Track record of technical mentorship and leading guilds

Nice to have

• AI-operable vision to translate systems evolution into 12-24 month roadmaps
• Experience designing multi-tenant ML platforms
• Inner source / Open source contributions
• Experience as a technical advisor to senior stakeholders
• Applied research through PoCs
• Intermediate/advanced English

About the company

iFood moves more than 80 million orders per month using Machine Learning models and AI agents. The company values diversity and innovation to achieve results.