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About the Role
Join our team as a Principal MLOps Engineer and help build the infrastructure and deployment systems for a revolutionary new music discovery platform. You'll play a critical role in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that support our platform's machine learning models and data pipelines. This includes setting up robust development environments for ML engineers, managing model training and experimentation workflows, building and operating data pipelines, and automating deployment of our recommendation systems. Our product is modern, challenging, and ambitious, delivering a first-class, highly engaging user experience that integrates content delivery, audio playback, machine learning, and recommendation systems. Join us in transforming the world of music consumption.
What You Will Do
- Operate in a fast-paced, startup-like environment to launch a new business within Harman.
- Work with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.
- Make critical early-stage development decisions to ensure long-term success.
- Serve as a strong technical voice on backend engineering, ML Engineering, DevOps, and MLOps considerations.
- Actively engage with product stakeholders in an iterative, dynamic environment.
- Develop a scalable, maintainable, and operable MLOps infrastructure to support both product launch and future growth.
- Collaborate closely with app developers and engineers to ensure project success.
What You Need to Be Successful
- Experience: 10+ years across MLOps and DevOps
- Technical Skills: Strong understanding of modern MLOps and DevOps tools and best practices, including model training and deployment, experiment management, scalable data pipelines, and real-time / eventually consistent systems.
- Programming Languages: Proficient in Python and bash
- Cloud Platforms: Extensive hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure.
- Deployment Technologies: Expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Serverless architectures.
- Infrastructure Management: Proven experience with data pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
- System Architecture: Strong knowledge of components such as databases, caches, event streaming, queues, data warehouses, and ML-specific data infrastructure.
- Automation: Skilled in automating infrastructure, deployments, model training pipelines, and system management using industry-standard tools.
- MLOps-Specific Skills: Familiarity with setting up robust development environments for ML engineers, managing model experimentation workflows, building and operating data pipelines, and automating end-to-end ML lifecycle management.
Bonus Points if You Have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or another related field.
- A passion for music and interest in working on products that bring joy to music lovers worldwide.
- Experience working with machine learning workloads in production
- Experience with social products or recommendation systems
What Makes You Eligible
- Position is 100% Remote
- You must be available for meetings and team interaction during typical continental US business hours.
- Be willing to travel up to 5%, domestically and internationally.
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment.
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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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What We Do
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In March 2017, HARMAN became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. Looking for a challenge where your experience is valued? Come see what you can achieve as a leader with HARMAN!
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