MLOps (ML platform)
The engineering that gets models into production and keeps them there: deployment, versioning, monitoring, and the platform other teams build on.
Hiring data as of November 4, 2026 · refreshed daily
- companies naming it
- 10 of 47companies naming it
- open roles naming it
- 15open roles naming it
- of those based in NYC
- 8of those based in NYC
- median posted base (n=8)
- $215kmedian posted base (n=8)
What MLOps means
MLOps applies the disciplines of software operations to machine learning: reproducible training, model registries, automated deployment, monitoring for drift, and rollback. In companies with several model-building teams it becomes an internal platform.
The LLM era changed the contents more than the job. There is less training pipeline to manage when the model is someone else’s API, and more evaluation, prompt and version management, cost tracking, and observability across multi-step agent runs.
MLOps in New York job posts
10 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name MLOps in at least one open role today, across 15 postings. 8 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.
This is engineering vocabulary: 80% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.
How to read it
We match the platform phrasing too — “ML platform”, “ML infrastructure”, “model serving” — since few postings say MLOps outright. It signals a company past its first model and now paying for the absence of tooling. A good role for strong backend or infrastructure engineers moving toward AI.
What these roles pay
Midpoints of 8 distinct salary ranges posted on New York roles that name MLOps. Base salary only; on-target earnings are excluded, and a range repeated across one company’s postings counts once. For comparison, the median across all New York engineering postings is $216k. A term’s pay reflects the roles that name it as much as the skill itself — see the role mix below before reading a premium into it. Full bands by function and seniority are in the NYC salary calculator.
Companies naming MLOps, daily
Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 47 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.
View as table
| Date | companies |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-20 | 13 |
| 2026-09-21 | 13 |
| 2026-09-22 | 13 |
| 2026-09-23 | 14 |
| 2026-09-24 | 14 |
| 2026-09-25 | 13 |
| 2026-09-26 | 13 |
| 2026-09-27 | 13 |
| 2026-09-28 | 13 |
| 2026-09-29 | 12 |
| 2026-09-30 | 13 |
| 2026-10-01 | 13 |
| 2026-10-02 | 13 |
| 2026-10-03 | 13 |
| 2026-10-04 | 13 |
| 2026-10-05 | 13 |
| 2026-10-06 | 13 |
| 2026-10-07 | 13 |
| 2026-10-08 | 14 |
| 2026-10-09 | 14 |
| 2026-10-10 | 13 |
| 2026-10-11 | 13 |
| 2026-10-12 | 12 |
| 2026-10-13 | 12 |
| 2026-10-14 | 12 |
| 2026-10-15 | 12 |
| 2026-10-16 | 12 |
| 2026-10-17 | 11 |
| 2026-10-18 | 11 |
| 2026-10-19 | 11 |
| 2026-10-20 | 11 |
| 2026-10-21 | 11 |
| 2026-10-22 | 12 |
| 2026-10-23 | 12 |
| 2026-10-24 | 12 |
| 2026-10-25 | 12 |
| 2026-10-26 | 12 |
| 2026-10-27 | 12 |
| 2026-10-28 | 12 |
| 2026-10-29 | 10 |
| 2026-10-30 | 10 |
| 2026-10-31 | 10 |
| 2026-11-01 | 10 |
| 2026-11-02 | 10 |
| 2026-11-03 | 10 |
| 2026-11-04 | 10 |
Who names it
Open roles naming MLOps, by company.
- AlphaSense3
- Invisible Technologies3
- Modal2
- April1
- ElevenLabs1
- Headway1
- Hume AI1
- Normal Computing1
- Pinecone1
- Tennr1
Which roles
The same postings, by function and by seniority.
- Engineering12
- Product1
- Research1
- GTM1
- Staff/Principal8
- Mid3
- Senior3
- Manager1
Named alongside MLOps
Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 10 companies pair the two.
Open roles naming MLOps
A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.
- Forward Deployed Engineer - ML ↗Modal · New York
- Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed) ↗Invisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid
- Senior Backend Engineer (ML) ↗Tennr · New York City Office
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning ↗Hume AI · New York, New York, United States
- Staff AI Platform Engineer ↗AlphaSense · New York, New York, United States
- Technical Product Marketing Manager (Staff) ↗Pinecone · New York City
- Compiler Frontend Engineer ↗Normal Computing · Mountain View
- Hands-on AI & Data Engineering Manager ↗April · Tel Aviv
On the AI in NYC Show
- Episode 32: From Computational Chemistry to AI at Scale
Alexa Griffith, Red Hat
How this is counted
Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.
The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.
Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.
MLOps — common questions
What does MLOps mean in an AI job posting?
The engineering that gets models into production and keeps them there: deployment, versioning, monitoring, and the platform other teams build on. We match the platform phrasing too — “ML platform”, “ML infrastructure”, “model serving” — since few postings say MLOps outright. It signals a company past its first model and now paying for the absence of tooling. A good role for strong backend or infrastructure engineers moving toward AI.
How many New York AI companies are hiring for MLOps?
As of November 4, 2026, 10 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name MLOps in the description of at least one open role, across 15 postings (8 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.
What do roles that ask for MLOps pay in New York?
Across 8 distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming MLOps, the median midpoint is $215k base, with the middle half between $203k and $254k. The same figure for all New York engineering postings is $216k. These are employer-posted ranges required by New York’s pay transparency law, base salary only.
Which skills are asked for alongside MLOps?
In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with MLOps are JAX, Vector search, LangChain, RAG, Prompt engineering. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.
Need someone who has actually shipped this?
A keyword in a posting is easy to match and hard to verify. We match companies with AI engineers and consultancies vetted on production work, and tell you when the project needs a different skill than the one you named.
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