ZeroSpace is a digital agency and production studio specializing in emerging technologies and real-time 3D for virtual production, CG animation, and immersive experiences. Our unique facility houses the largest fixed-install LED volume on the East Coast, industry-standard Vicon motion capture systems, and a state-of-the-art volumetric capture studio. We're an interdisciplinary team of technologists and artists where technical innovation meets creative vision. Our clients include major film studios, Oscar-winning directors, and the biggest brands in the world.
The Role
We're seeking an MLOps Engineer to build our AI infrastructure from the ground up, indexing and retrieving petabytes of multimodal data and enabling our creative AI team to push the boundaries of generative AI in production. This is a foundational role where you'll architect and implement the systems that power generative production, from data management to model deployment and monitoring.
In this role, you will:
Design and build ML infrastructure to ingest, store, index, and retrieve from petabyte-scale media datasets
Work closely with product and creative AI team to understand backend requirements
Design and deploy model fine-tuning and inference infrastructure
Build monitoring and observability systems for AI workloads
Scale data storage and retrieval capabilities with high availability and efficiency
Build data validation and quality assurance pipelines
Monitor and optimize costs across cloud providers
Develop CI/CD pipelines for our backend services
About you:
Proven experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Kubeflow, MLflow, etc.)
In-depth understanding of distributed computing and storage systems
Experience with monitoring and observability tools
Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs at scale
A track record of delivering efficiency through automation
Able to set, own, and communicate direction in a dynamic environment
Nice to Have:
Experience in media & entertainment industry
Knowledge of media file formats and image/video processing pipelines
Familiarity with 3D game engines such as Unreal
Experience with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid cloud
Experience with creating agentic systems
Skills Required
- Proven experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration tools, such as Airflow, Kubeflow, or MLflow
- In-depth understanding of distributed computing and storage systems
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools
- Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs at scale
- Track record of delivering efficiency through automation
- Ability to set, own, and communicate direction in a dynamic environment
- Experience in the media and entertainment industry
- Knowledge of media file formats and image or video processing pipelines
- Familiarity with 3D game engines such as Unreal
- Experience with on-premise infrastructure and hybrid cloud
- Experience creating agentic systems
What We Do
ZeroSpace is a Brooklyn-based digital agency and production studio focused on emerging technologies and real-time 3D. It creates virtual-production, CG-animation, and immersive experiences for major film studios, directors, and global brands. Its facility includes a large LED volume, motion-capture systems, and volumetric-capture capabilities, supporting creative production, live events, media projects, and proprietary technology development for clients worldwide.
