Senior MLOps Engineer

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world. The AI/ML team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans. The listing location is Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

Key facts

What you'll do

• <div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community.
• We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave.
• Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world.
• The AI/ML team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
• The AI/ML team relies on strong MLOps practices to ensure models are reliable, scalable, and impactful in production.</p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain end-to-end ML infrastructure and pipelines to support model training, deployment, and monitoring.</li> <li>Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for ML to enable fast, reliable, and automated delivery of ML models.</li> <li>Implement and manage model registry, experiment tracking, and versioning using tools like MLflow, SageMaker Model Registry, or equivalent.</li> <li>Establish monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks to detect drift, degradation, and anomalies in real-time.</li> <li>Partner with data scientists to productionize ML models, ensuring seamless transition from research to production.</li> <li>Optimize ML workflows for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness across training and inference.</li> <li>Leverage platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Databricks, Kinesis, Lambda, Kubernetes (EKS), and Docker for ML operations.</li> <li>Collaborate with data engineering and software engineering teams to integrate ML services into large-scale distributed systems.</li> <li>Drive best practices for MLOps, including reproducibility, governance, compliance, and security of deployed models.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>How you'll work with Data Science</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner with ML Engineers to deploy and scale models built with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn.</li> <li>Help data scientists track experiments, compare runs, and promote models to production.</li> <li>Translate research notebooks into production-grade pipelines with reproducible training and inference workflows.</li> <li>Co-own model lifecycle management: data, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining.</li> <li>Ensure ML models align with software engineering best practices for testing, automation, and observability.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>We get excited about candidates, like you, because...</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.</li> <li>8+ years of experience in MLOps, ML infrastructure, or DevOps for AI/ML systems.</li> <li>MLflow, SageMaker, Databricks ML for experiment tracking, model registry, and lifecycle management.</li> <li>Airflow, or Step Functions for workflow orchestration.</li> <li>MLFLow for monitoring ML models in production.</li> <li>Deep knowledge of CI/CD and automation frameworks (GitHub Actions, Terraform, CloudFormation).</li> <li>Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (EKS).</li> <li>Proficiency in Python and scripting for ML integrations.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and services relevant to ML (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, Step Functions).</li> <li>Understanding of security, compliance, and governance in ML production systems.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a proven ability to work with cross-functional teams of data scientists</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>The R&D team is dedicated to developing, testing, and validating robust and scalable machine learning models that drive business objectives.
• Our focus includes enhancing operational processes through AI/ML solutions, such as trend analysis, anomaly detection, and the deployment of large language models (LLMs) for tasks like querying system health.
• Another major focus area is preserving, and improving customer experience and retention.
• We closely work with our stakeholders to ensure AI/M

Requirements

• Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it's powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>Crunchyroll is growing and changing, presenting unique challenges and opportunities to support millions of anime fans around the world.
• The AI/ML team provides seamless help to our internal stakeholders, ensuring an exceptional experience for all Crunchyroll fans.
• The AI/ML team relies on strong MLOps practices to ensure models are reliable, scalable, and impactful in production.</p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain end-to-end ML infrastructure and pipelines to support model training, deployment, and monitoring.</li> <li>Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for ML to enable fast, reliable, and automated delivery of ML models.</li> <li>Implement and manage model registry, experiment tracking, and versioning using tools like MLflow, SageMaker Model Registry, or equivalent.</li> <li>Establish monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks to detect drift, degradation, and anomalies in real-time.</li> <li>Partner with data scientists to productionize ML models, ensuring seamless transition from research to production.</li> <li>Optimize ML workflows for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness across training and inference.</li> <li>Leverage platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Databricks, Kinesis, Lambda, Kubernetes (EKS), and Docker for ML operations.</li> <li>Collaborate with data engineering and software engineering teams to integrate ML services into large-scale distributed systems.</li> <li>Drive best practices for MLOps, including reproducibility, governance, compliance, and security of deployed models.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>How you'll work with Data Science</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner with ML Engineers to deploy and scale models built with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn.</li> <li>Help data scientists track experiments, compare runs, and promote models to production.</li> <li>Translate research notebooks into production-grade pipelines with reproducible training and inference workflows.</li> <li>Co-own model lifecycle management: data, training, validation, deployment, monitoring, retraining.</li> <li>Ensure ML models align with software engineering best practices for testing, automation, and observability.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About You</strong></h2> <p>We get excited about candidates, like you, because...</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.</li> <li>8+ years of experience in MLOps, ML infrastructure, or DevOps for AI/ML systems.</li> <li>MLflow, SageMaker, Databricks ML for experiment tracking, model registry, and lifecycle management.</li> <li>Airflow, or Step Functions for workflow orchestration.</li> <li>MLFLow for monitoring ML models in production.</li> <li>Deep knowledge of CI/CD and automation frameworks (GitHub Actions, Terraform, CloudFormation).</li> <li>Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (EKS).</li> <li>Proficiency in Python and scripting for ML integrations.</li> <li>Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and services relevant to ML (SageMaker, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, Step Functions).</li> <li>Understanding of security, compliance, and governance in ML production systems.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with a proven ability to work with cross-functional teams of data scientists</li> </ul> <h2><strong>About the Team</strong></h2> <p>The R&D team is dedicated to developing, testing, and validating robust and scalable machine learning models that drive business objectives.
• Another major focus area is preserving, and improving customer experience and retention.

About Crunchyroll, LLC

An American entertainment company runs a dedicated anime streaming service. Subscribers access on-demand shows through a paid membership. The platform focuses on animated series and films. Operations center on delivering episodes with regular updates. Teams manage content delivery and user experience. Viewers explore a catalog designed for ongoing series releases. Service access requires a subscription. Continuous growth drives content availability and technical improvements. The company aligns its product with viewer habits. Streaming reliability remains a core goal.

Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job, not an extra. The duties above are the ones this listing actually states for this opening.

About the location

The posting places this role in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Local hiring markets vary in interview pace and compensation bands. Location copy is here so readers understand the geography attached to the title.