Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

Cognizant

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On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Salary
$130,000–$145,000 / yr
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1 day ago
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.

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TL;DR · Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer

As a Staff Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform Engineering team, you will architect and advance scalable machine learning infrastructure to support the development, deployment, and operation of models at enterprise scale. You will design end-to-end platforms for data processing, feature management, training, and model serving while leading technical strategy for automation and platform reliability. Your daily work involves designing real-time and batch inference solutions for high-volume production workloads and mentoring engineers. You will utilize technologies including Apache Spark, Apache Beam, feature stores, and large-scale data pipelines, alongside ML serving platforms like TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, or Triton. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, containerization, orchestration platforms, and cloud-native architectures to solve complex problems in production ML environments and mission-critical business applications.

What you'll do

  • Architect and evolve end-to-end machine learning platforms for data processing, feature management, training, and model serving.
  • Design and implement scalable infrastructure for the development, deployment, and operation of ML workloads.
  • Drive technical strategy, standards, and best practices for machine learning infrastructure and platform reliability.
  • Lead the design of real-time and batch inference solutions for high-volume production workloads.
  • Mentor engineers and lead technical reviews to accelerate ML adoption across the organization.
  • Build and support production ML platforms that power mission-critical business applications.
  • Manage large-scale data pipelines using technologies like Apache Spark and Apache Beam.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of experience focused on machine learning infrastructure, MLOps, or platform engineering.
  • Deep expertise in designing and operating distributed systems and large-scale data processing platforms.
  • Proven experience building and supporting production ML platforms for mission-critical business applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Apache Beam, feature stores, and large-scale data pipelines.
  • Strong knowledge of ML serving and inference platforms like TorchServe, TensorFlow Serving, or Triton.
  • Experience with containerization, orchestration platforms, cloud-native architectures, and infrastructure automation.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives and influencing architecture decisions across engineering organizations.
  • Experience designing and optimizing GPU-based infrastructure for machine learning workloads (preferred).
  • Background in high-performance computing environments (preferred).
  • Expertise in ML observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational excellence (preferred).
  • Contributions to open-source machine learning infrastructure, platform engineering, or MLOps projects (preferred).
  • Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred).
  • Experience supporting security, governance, and compliance requirements within ML ecosystems (preferred).

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