MLOps Tech Lead, Guild Education
$161-236k
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Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Be an early applicant
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$161-236k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of combined experience in MLOps, DevOps, software engineering, or related technical roles
- Proven leadership experience leading teams technically, mentoring engineers, and setting technical direction
- Deep expertise with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), especially managed ML/AI services
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration platforms
- Advanced knowledge of ML serving frameworks (MLFlow, TensorFlow Serving, TorchServe, FastAPI) and ML pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow)
- Understand MCP and have played with different MCP servers (github, Databricks, AWS)
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and extensive experience with CI/CD tools and automated testing
- Expert-level skills in Python programming, software engineering best practices, and scalable systems design
What the job involves
- Guild is hiring a MLOps Tech Lead. As an MLOps Tech Lead, you'll provide technical leadership to the MLOps team while actively contributing to the architecture, design, and development of Guild's ML and AI agent platforms.
- This is a player / coach role, with a heavy emphasis on the player part in the beginning. We’re building this function 0-1 at Guild, and need you to be able to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. You will drive both the technical roadmap and execution, ensuring best practices, reliability, scalability, and efficiency in our ML/AI infrastructure and operations
- Lead and mentor the MLOps engineering team, providing technical direction, oversight, and professional growth
- Architect, design, and lead the implementation of Guild's scalable ML and AI agent deployment platform
- Drive adoption of best practices for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment specific to AI and ML workflows
- Ensure robust monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability of production ML systems and AI agents
- Collaborate closely with data science, engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align technical initiatives with strategic business objectives
- Champion and advance Guild’s data governance, privacy, security, and compliance standards within the ML operational context
- Continually assess and integrate cutting-edge technologies and practices to maintain Guild’s leadership in MLOps and AI infrastructure
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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