Senior MLOps Engineer (Remote)

Location: Kohl's Corporate Offices (0900)

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Senior MLOps Engineer, you will focus on supporting cross-functional teams in designing, deploying, and operating machine learning solutions while building scalable infrastructure, tools, and best practices across the Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) ecosystem.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Engineers across the full ML lifecycle, including building and scaling ETL pipelines, deploying models into customer-facing applications, and enabling efficient model development through cloud infrastructure and tooling

• Design, build, and maintain scalable machine learning infrastructure, including model serving (real-time and batch), training environments, and orchestration systems, with a focus on performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Contribute to the roadmap for Machine Learning Engineering and Data Science tools, including developing reusable frameworks and standardized solutions to streamline model implementation

• Partner with and support Data Scientists by enabling effective use of cloud-based tools and infrastructure, and providing technical expertise across the ML lifecycle

• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to share knowledge, improve best practices, and foster a culture of continuous learning and development

• Support development and maintain monitoring, alerting, and automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability, performance, and integrity of data pipelines, models, and infrastructure

• Develop, document, and communicate implementations and best practices across the data science lifecycle

• Manage and communicate cloud infrastructure costs and budgets to project stakeholders

• Stay current with GCP services and evolving best practices in Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Experience in MLOps or DevOps practices, including building and operating production ML systems using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, API development, model serving (batch and real-time), and automated testing frameworks

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

• Experience working with Data Scientists to deploy, scale, and operationalize machine learning models in production environments

• 3+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer with a proven track record of successful project delivery

• In-depth knowledge of cloud platform, preferably Google Cloud Platform services, particularly Vertex AI, BigQuery and Dataproc.

• Extensive expertise with CI/CD and 

• IaC best practices

• Extensive knowledge of distributed computing and big data technologies like Spark, Kubeflow, Airflow and SQL

• Extensive expertise in Python and machine learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn)

• Experience working in Agile environments with an emphasis on iterative development and continuous delivery

Preferred

• Master’s Degree 

• Proficiency in Java or other languages

• Retail experience

• E-commerce experience

• 5+ years of experience in Machine Learning

• Experience with optimization techniques and tools (e.g., Gurobi, linear programming, mixed-integer programming)

• Experience working with agent based or agentic AI systems, including orchestration of autonomous workflows or LLM-driven agents

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance as set by the company 

• Ability to work at least 8 hours per day, occasionally longer when necessary to meet business needs, 5 days per week

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Perform work in accordance with the Physical/Cognitive Requirements section

Physical/Cognitive Requirements 

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner

• Ability to comply with health and safety standards