Principal AI / ML Operations Engineer

Get to Know Us :

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

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Make Your Mark :

The Principal AI / ML Operations Engineer leads the architecture, automation, and operationalization of both machine learning and AI systems at scale. This role defines the strategy and technical standards for ML-Ops and AIOps across the organization, ensuring models and agents are evaluated, deployed, governed, and monitored with reliability, efficiency, and compliance. The candidate will collaborate across AI, data, and product engineering teams to drive best practices for serving, observability, automated retraining, evaluation flywheels, and operational guardrails for AI systems in production

You'll Get To :

Leadership and Strategy

• Define enterprise-level standards and reference architectures for ML-Ops and AIOps systems.
• Partner with data science, security, and product teams to set evaluation and governance standards (Guardrails, Bias, Drift, Latency SLAs).
• Mentor senior engineers and drive design reviews for ML pipelines, model registries, and agentic runtime environments.
• Lead incident response and reliability strategies for ML / AI systems.

AI System Deployment and Integration :

Model Deployment and Integration :

Infrastructure and Environment Management :

Monitoring and Maintenance :

Automation and Orchestration :

Collaboration with Data Science Teams :

Performance Optimization :

Security and Compliance :

What You'll Bring :

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining :

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.

Salary Range :

USD $276,000.00 / Yr. - USD $346,000.00 / Yr.

Pay Transparency Statement :

Placement within this range depends upon several factors, including the applicant's prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, BlackLine also offers short-term and long-term incentive programs, based on eligibility, along with a robust offering of benefit and wellness plans.

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.

Accommodations :

BlackLine is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation that would better enable your success during the application or interview process, please complete this form.