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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Red Hat, Inc.
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/28/2025
At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, virtualization, and AI technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly-growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.
About the Job
At Red Hat, our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products - it’s embedded in how we work and grow. Red Hatters embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.
Red Hat’s Global Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Agentic and AI Engineering Tools team. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products and will be responsible for the investigation, evaluation, integration, and development of open source AI/ML systems and functionality to improve the overall development and operations of both Red Hat’s downstream AI products and upstream open source AI projects.
The ideal candidate will have a proven background in delivering enterprise level AI/ML solutions. As part of your responsibilities, you will regularly participate in design reviews, contribute to the productization of major features, and support bug fixes.
What you will do
  • Build developer-facing capabilities to enable agentic reasoning using large language models.
  • Establish best-practices for using those capabilities effectively.
  • Enable developers to evaluate how effective and reliable the agentic reasoning system they create are.
  • Provide scalable, secure, and robust infrastructure for tools used in agentic reasoning.
  • Team Collaboration: Work with software engineers , data scientists, and product managers to meet project requirements.
  • Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and training to junior engineers
  • Design and Train Models: Train ML models using established frameworks and architectures.
  • 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.
  • Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.
What you will bring
  • 5 years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Scientist, or similar role.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
  • Machine learning, AI, or deep learning-related course work or experience or independent project work with evidence of completion.
  • Experience in understanding and implementing concepts outlined in research papers. Experience with writing and publication of research papers is a plus.
  • Experience writing unit, functional, and end-to-end tests for predictive or generative AI applications.
  • Experience preparing structured datasets for training and analysis.
  • Experience with feature engineering to enhance the utility of ML models.
  • Experience with model performance evaluation using predefined metrics to assess model accuracy and identify improvements.
  • Experience deploying machine learning models into test environments.
Following is considered a plus
  • Experience building agentic systems with MCP, ACP, or A2A.
  • Masters or PhD in Machine Learning (ML) / Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Experience working with Kubernetes/OpenShift and containers, troubleshooting issues with them, and working with YAML, Kubernetes controllers, and operators.
  • Understanding of DevOps methodology, scrum, and/or Jira.
  • Participating in an agile development team.
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The salary range for this position is $170,770.00 - $281,770.00. Actual offer will be based on your qualifications.
Pay Transparency
Red Hat determines compensation based on several factors including but not limited to job location, experience, applicable skills and training, external market value, and internal pay equity. Annual salary is one component of Red Hat’s compensation package. This position may also be eligible for bonus, commission, and/or equity. For positions with Remote-US locations, the actual salary range for the position may differ based on location but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience.
About Red Hat
Red Hat
is the world’s leading provider of enterprise
open source
software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries, our associates work flexibly across work environments, from in-office, to office-flex, to fully remote, depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We're a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
  • Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
  • Retirement 401(k) with employer match
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
  • Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
  • Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!
Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.
Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hat’s culture is built on the open source principles of transparency, collaboration, and inclusion, where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized, it empowers people from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences to come together to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access, and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.
Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Red Hat does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Red Hat and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.
Red Hat supports individuals with disabilities and provides reasonable accommodations to job applicants. If you need assistance completing our online job application, email
application-assistance@redhat.com
. General inquiries, such as those regarding the status of a job application, will not receive a reply.

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