Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Platform

Mozilla

Machine Learning Engineer designing and operating AI platform components for Mozilla. Collaborating across teams to ensure efficient, secure, and scalable model deployment.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,000 - $218,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate core AI platform components used to train, deploy, and serve machine learning models in production environments.
Own model serving and inference workflows end-to-end, driving improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
Lead efforts to optimize inference systems for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency across CPU and GPU workloads.
Design and manage GPU-based inference and training workloads, including performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource utilization optimization.
Own and improve critical parts of the model lifecycle, including packaging, versioning, testing strategies, validation, and deployment automation.
Implement and evolve observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) to improve visibility and operational resilience of ML services and pipelines.
Partner closely with product, infrastructure, security, and data teams to design scalable platform capabilities that enable AI-powered features.
Contribute to technical design discussions, propose architectural improvements, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
Participate in and help improve operational processes, including incident response, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree with 4–6 years of relevant industry experience, or Master’s degree with significant hands-on experience building and operating production ML systems, or work experience equivalent
Strong experience developing in Python for machine learning systems, backend services, or distributed data processing.
Proven experience deploying and operating ML workloads in cloud environments, including production-grade infrastructure.
Solid understanding of model serving architectures, inference pipelines, and performance tradeoffs (latency, throughput, cost, scaling strategies).
Hands-on experience working with GPU-based workloads and accelerated computing in production settings.
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and development workflows that support reliable ML system deployment.
Ability to independently scope and drive technical initiatives while balancing product and operational priorities.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug performance and reliability issues in distributed systems.
Clear and effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
One-time home office stipend
Annual professional development budget
Quarterly well-being stipend
Considerable paid parental leave
Employee referral bonus program
Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonmachine learningmodel servinginference pipelinesGPU-based workloadsCI/CD pipelinesperformance tuningcapacity planningresource utilization optimizationdistributed data processing

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationmentoringtechnical initiative scopingoperational excellencecode reviewsknowledge sharingincident responsepost-incident reviews