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Senior MLOps Engineer

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Job Description

Whole Foods Market is hiring for a Senior MLOps Engineer to join our Pricing & Promo Science Team which is part of the Pricing Center of Excellence within Whole Foods Market and is responsible for building a best-in-class Pricing & Promo Science Platform for measuring pricing strategy effectiveness, improving customer price/value perception and business performance.The MLOps Engineer will play an integral role in designing, developing, and deploying MLOps solutions that provide data scientists the ability to synthesize a variety of pricing and promotion recommendations, optimize to multiple financial goals and run numerous what-if scenarios.This position is located in Austin, TX with the expectation of being onsite 5 days a week.

Responsibilities 

  • Lead engineering activities to build production-grade Pricing and Promotion science models and play a pivotal role in implementing engineering operations to ensure seamless deployment, monitoring, and management of machine learning models and data pipelines. 

  • Collaborate closely with data scientists, data engineers, and platform engineers to establish CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code frameworks, develop reusable pipelining libraries, design scalable, highly fault-tolerant architectures, implement model observation and performance monitoring, and deploy/support enterprise-grade ML solutions. 

  • Create and manage documentation and knowledge bases, including development best practices, MLOps procedures, and CI/CD processes and procedures. 

  • Implement best practices for version control, testing, and deployment. 

Skills 

  • Hands-on with DevOps, MLOps (ML Operations), and container-based application development (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) 

  • Expertise designing and implementing data pipelines using modern data engineering approach and tools: AWS, PySpark, Python, Docker, etc. 

  • Understanding of data science analytical tools (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Sagemaker, Jupyter Notebooks, etc.) 

  • Proven ability to take complex business analyses and projects from concept to completion and make the results accessible and relevant to business users at all levels. 

  • Self-directed, innovative thinker with a strong attention to detail and commitment to consistently meeting timelines and operating from a sense of urgency. 

  • Comfortable with uncertainty: projects and assignments will change rapidly so must be flexible enough to accommodate changing priorities and timelines. 

  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions in one-on-one and large group situations involving senior leadership and other teams in the organization. 

Education & Experience 

  • 5+ years of experience as an MLOps engineer, or 5+ years of experience as a DevOps engineer with 2+ years of experience building, training, and deploying ML models. 

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. 

  • Hands-on with AWS and Python. 

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs. Whole Foods Market works with job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter to promote opportunities at our company. Please be aware that other career sites may not be accurate or up to date and may even be fraudulent. We encourage and recommend all candidates to apply via our site.