**Job Summary:** Are you ready to join a game-changing open-source AI platform that harnesses the power of hybrid cloud to drive innovation? The Red Hat OpenShift AI team is looking for a Machine Learning or Software Engineer with Kubernetes and MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) experience to join our rapidly growing engineering team. Our focus is to create a platform, partner ecosystem, and community by which enterprise customers can solve problems to accelerate business success using AI. This is a very exciting opportunity to build and impact the next generation of MLOps platforms, participate in open source communities, contribute to the development of the OpenShift AI product, and be at the forefront of the exciting evolution of AI. You’ll join an ecosystem that fosters continuous learning, career growth, and professional development. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work within a talented team of engineers, contributing to Ray (https://ray.io) on OpenShift AI while helping the team to deliver on its vision and roadmap. We’re looking for an individual contributor who is open to working in a team that promotes a positive supporting culture, collaborating closely with their peers and cross-functional teams. Embracing an upstream first mentality, you should have a passion for working in open-source communities and for developing solutions that integrate Red Hat, open-source, and partner technologies into a cohesive experience. **What you will do** + Innovate in the model training, fine tuning and data processing domain within OpenShift AI through the use of Ray components such as KubeRay (https://github.com/ray-project/kuberay) , Ray Train (https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/train/train.html) and Ray Data (https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/data/data.html) + Play a supporting role in the delivery of team roadmap features and initiatives + Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by sharing recommendations and technical knowledge with team members + Collaborate with other engineering and cross-functional teams to analyze and clarify business requirements + Communicate effectively to the team members to ensure proper visibility of development efforts + Give thoughtful and prompt code reviews + Ensure non-functional requirements including security, resiliency, and maintainability are met + Use CI/CD best practices to deliver solutions as productization efforts into OpenShift AI **What you will bring** + Experience in **Kubernetes, OpenShift or other cloud-native technologies** + Ability to quickly learn and guide others on using new tools and technologies + Innovation skills and a passion for technology + Autonomous work ethic, thriving in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. + Excellent written and verbal communication skills + A willingness to proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality. + Open to exploring and experimenting with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling. **The following will be considered a plus:** + Experience working with Ray + While a Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or a related discipline is valued, we prioritize practical experience and technical prowess + Machine Learning/Data Science experience + Understanding of how Open Source communities work + Experience with development for public cloud services (AWS, GCE, Azure) + Experience working with or deploying MLOps platforms + Experience with technologies and projects such as Kubeflow, Ray, Hugging Face, Llama Stack + Experience writing Kubernetes/OpenShift controllers and operators + Experience writing DSLs in Python or other languages + Experience with distributed systems (especially those that run on Kubernetes) and troubleshooting them \#LI-PM1 \#AI-HIRING **About Red Hat** Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/) is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source) software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. 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