Grindr · 5 days ago
Staff MLOps Engineer
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $270K/yr
5+ years expGrindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket, and they are seeking a Staff MLOps Engineer to enhance their AI capabilities. The role involves building and maintaining infrastructure for machine learning operations, enabling the ML teams to develop scalable systems that drive impactful user experiences.
DatingLGBTLocation Based ServicesMobile Apps
Responsibilities
Build and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature computation, model training, validation, deployment, and inference, all at substantial scale of data
Stand up and manage a feature store, ensuring feature consistency, lineage, and reuse across teams
Expertise with best in class tools for managing deployment, scheduling, and environments and how to use them in the specialized regime of ML Infrastructure
Develop automated model deployment workflows with CI/CD, safe rollout strategies, and reproducibility guarantees
Implement monitoring and observability for ML systems, including data quality checks, drift detection, performance metrics, and alerting
Build and support training environments with experiment tracking, distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, and artifact and environment management
Collaborate with ML engineers and data engineers to streamline workflows, improve model iteration speed, and enforce MLOps best practices
Ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability of ML systems through strong engineering and operational rigor
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
5+ years experience in MLOps, ML platform engineering, ML infrastructure, or similar roles
Strong experience building production ML pipelines and supporting end-to-end ML workflows
Excellent engineering fundamentals: Python, SQL, bash, Git
Experience with big data and distributed compute: Snowflake, Spark/pySpark, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
Experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) sufficient to support training pipelines and deployment workflows
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Ability to produce well-engineered, maintainable software with tests, documentation, and operational rigor
Experience with data quality frameworks, observability tooling, or experiment tracking systems
Preferred
Experience implementing full model lifecycle management (from data → training → deployment → monitoring)
Experience with vector databases, embeddings pipelines, or retrieval systems
Familiarity with NLP/LLM-based data pipelines or image/vision data workflows
Experience with recommendation system infrastructure
Strong grasp of classical ML concepts as they relate to platform design
Knowledge of data governance, compliance, retention, and classification
Track record of partnering with research/ML teams to operationalize models at scale
Benefits
Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.
Company
Grindr
Grindr is a location-based social application for gay, bi, trans, queer people and other members of the LGBT community.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$793MKey Investors
Capital One
2025-12-16Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2023-11-28Post Ipo Debt· $350M
2022-11-18Post Ipo Equity· $100M
Leadership Team
Irakly Arison
Chief Executive Officer
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John North
Chief Financial Officer
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