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Zone 5 Technologies

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
USA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 5, 2026
Salary
$140,000–$175,000 a year
Full-time

Machine Learning Ops Engineer

Job description

At Zone 5 Technologies, we're redefining what's possible in unmanned aircraft systems. Our team of engineers and innovators is developing cutting-edge autonomous solutions that push the boundaries of UAS technology - solving complex challenges that matter.

We're building the future of UAS capabilities, and we're looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you're driven by hard problems, energized by rapid innovation, and ready to make an impact on next-generation flight systems, you belong here.

We are investing in in-house LLM tooling and are hiring a dedicated MLOps Engineer to help grow it. You will build AI-powered capabilities—retrieval-augmented generation, tool integrations, and…

Job responsibilities

  • Design and build new LLM-powered tools and agentic workflows that automate real work and improve productivity across the company
  • Extend and improve our RAG systems—ingestion, chunking, embedding, retrieval, ranking, and evaluation—to raise answer quality
  • Structure retrieval around the organization's information hierarchy so that relevance and access boundaries improve together
  • Build tool integrations that connect LLMs to internal systems and data sources
  • Design agents that act safely against real systems, with appropriate guardrails, human-in-the-loop where warranted, and clear failure behavior
  • Establish evaluation and testing frameworks to measure quality, catch regressions, and guide iteration
  • Partner with teams across the company to identify high-value use cases and turn them into deployed tools
  • Deploy AI tools and services for teams across the company, taking them from prototype to reliable production

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or related field – equivalent industry experience also welcome
  • 3-6+ years of experience in MLOps, software, platform, or backend engineering (relevant depth matters more than exact years)
  • Strong proficiency in Python and comfort building, shipping, and operating services
  • Experience building LLM-powered applications—working with LLM APIs or self-hosted models, prompts, and tool/function calling
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployment
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production service reliability
  • Awareness of access control and data-boundary concerns when connecting tools to sensitive internal systems
  • Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and work across unfamiliar parts of the stack

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