Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Red Hat · Boston, MA
About this role
Red Hat is hiring a principal-level Machine Learning Engineer based in Boston, MA. The posting calls out experience with Kubernetes, Linux, Data Structures, Machine Learning. Compensation is listed at $189,600–$312,730 per year.
- Role
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Posted
- Jun 2, 2026
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Job description
from Red Hat careersJob Summary
At Red Hat we believe the future of AI is open and we are on a mission to bring the power of open-source LLMs and vLLM to every enterprise. Red Hat AI Inference team accelerates AI for the enterprise and brings operational simplicity to GenAI deployments. As leading developers, maintainers of the vLLM project, and inventors of state-of-the-art techniques for model quantization and sparsification, our team provides a stable platform for enterprises to build, optimize, and scale LLM deployments.
As a Machine Learning Engineer focused on model optimization algorithms, you will work closely with our product and research teams to develop SOTA deep learning software. You will collaborate with our technical and research teams to develop LLM training and deployment pipelines, implement model compression algorithms, and productize deep learning research. If you are someone who enjoys bridging research and production, optimizing large models, and contributing to open-source AI tooling, this role is for you.
Join us in shaping the future of AI!
Red Hat will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.