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Theathletic·United States

Senior ML Operations Engineer (Remote)

full time·Posted Jan 29, 2026

Job description

About Us
 
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.

About the Role
 
We are looking for a senior machine learning operations engineer who understands data pipelines, infrastructure, and model monitoring. In this role, you will work closely with our data science and data engineering teams to help us productionize and maintain advanced machine learning models. As the first machine learning operations engineer on our small data science team, your work will be critical to both the data team at The Athletic and the company as a whole.
 
This role is 100% remote for candidates currently residing in either the United States or Canada.

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