MLOps Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Established · in 0.70% of HN hiring posts · 20 open roles at 16 companies · median $310k · first seen Feb 2017
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 16 companies (top 12 shown)
| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Intercom | 2 | |
| 2 |  Perplexity | 2 | |
| 3 |  Physical Intelligence | 2 | |
| 4 |  Scale AI | 2 | |
| 5 |  Abridge | 1 | |
| 6 |  Anthropic | 1 | |
| 7 |  Character.AI | 1 | |
| 8 |  Coinbase | 1 | |
| 9 |  Mercury | 1 | |
| 10 |  Nebius | 1 | |
| 11 |  OpenAI | 1 | |
| 12 |  Roblox | 1 |
Open roles
8 of 20; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Machine Learning Platform EngineerCoinbaseRemote - USA$191k to $225k | Coinbase | Remote - USA | $191k to $225k |
| AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGIOpenAISan Francisco$266k to $500k | OpenAI | San Francisco | $266k to $500k |
| Senior Machine Learning Operations EngineerMercurySan Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States$167k to $208k | Mercury | San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States | $167k to $208k |
ML Infrastructure Engineer xAI Palo Alto, CA$180k to $440k | xAI | Palo Alto, CA | $180k to $440k |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards ResearchAnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$350k to $500k | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | $350k to $500k |
| Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)PerplexitySan Francisco$220k to $405k | Perplexity | San Francisco | $220k to $405k |
| Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Ads & DiscoveryRobloxSan Mateo, CA, United States$295k to $345k | Roblox | San Mateo, CA, United States | $295k to $345k |
| Machine Learning Infrastructure EngineerAbridgeSF Office$221k to $260k | Abridge | SF Office | $221k to $260k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
126 posts since Apr 2011September 2026 2 of 256 postings, 0.78%
Related titles
About this title
Runs the training, serving and monitoring infrastructure that ML teams depend on.
Also counted: ML platform engineer, ML infrastructure, ML infra
First sighting
...We are looking for experienced Machine Learning engineers, ML infrastructure engineers and product infrastructure engineers to join our team. At...
Median posted salary $310k from 9 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
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