Whitecircle

MLOps Engineer

1w ago
100000 –200000 USD / yearEuropeRemote
Whitecircle

MLOps Engineer

1w ago
100000 –200000 USD / yearEuropeRemotekubernetesgpupipelinemonitoringdeployment

Responsible for building and maintaining infrastructure to deploy and monitor AI models safely and reliably in production.

About the company

  • White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.
  • We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others
  • We process over 100M+ API calls every month
  • We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model
  • We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

Requirements

  • Experience with an inference serving engine such as SGLang, vLLM, Dynamo, or TensorRT-LLM, and a working understanding of the request lifecycle through gateway, router, frontend, worker, queue, and model engine.
  • Solid Kubernetes GPU experience: NVIDIA device plugin, GPU scheduling, resource requests/limits, node affinity, taints, tolerations, and node pools.
  • Understanding of multi-node communication libraries and kernels, CUDA runtime, and container runtime compatibility, and the ability to debug across those layers.
  • Ability to design and implement CI/CD for model serving: image and config versioning, smoke tests, quality regression tests against benchmarks, latency/throughput gates, canary rollout, and rollback.
  • Strong observability instincts — you can define the dashboards and alerts that decide whether a model gets promoted or rolled back (p50/p95/p99 latency, TTFT, TPOT, queue depth, GPU utilization/memory, error/timeout/OOM rates, fallback rate, route distribution, canary vs. baseline, cost per successful request).
  • Production debugging across the whole stack from Rust to k8s configs.
  • Clear communication of engineering tradeoffs.

Nice to have

  • Rust backend experience.
  • NCCL, UCX, NVSHMEM, RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, or EFA.
  • ClickStack / Datadog.
  • Terraform for GPU infrastructure.
  • DCGM exporter, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry.
  • Experience with a high model rollout cadence (2–3 releases per week).

Other

  • TLDR: We're looking for an MLOps Engineer to sit at the boundary between Research and Production. You'll own the infrastructure that takes a trained model and makes it production-safe: rollout pipelines, quality and latency gates, canary deployments, and the dashboards that decide whether a release ships or rolls back.
  • Integrate new text and multimodal models into our serving paths and verify they behave correctly under production-like traffic.
  • Build and maintain rollout pipelines for frequent model releases.
  • Create smoke, quality, and performance gates for model promotion.
  • Operate local and cluster GPU deployments on Kubernetes.
  • Build dashboards for latency, throughput, queue depth, GPU usage, fallback rate, and quality drift.
  • Run A/B and canary rollouts for model, prompt, routing, and serving config changes.
  • Debug production issues across model config, tokenizer, serving API, router, queue, Kubernetes, GPU runtime, and CI jobs.
  • Optimize serving cost and reliability across mixed GPU capacity.
  • Paid time off in line with your local regulations, no matter where you work from
  • Work from Paris (hybrid) with a relocation package available, or work from London (note: we are unable to provide relocation support for London-based roles)
  • Comprehensive medical insurance for our France-based team (please note that we are in the process of setting up our UK office and therefore cannot offer medical insurance for London-based roles yet)
  • All the hardware, tools, and services you need
  • Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs
  • Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez
  • Introductory call with HR (25 min)
  • Take-home test task
  • Technical interview with Head of Applied Research (60 min)
  • Final conversation with our CEO (45 min)