Senior AI Platform Engineer

Role Overview

• Define AI feature specifications upfront — including acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, prompt contracts, and expected behaviors — and champion this spec-driven approach across the team.
• Own end-to-end AI feature delivery across the full AI SDLC: spec definition, prototyping, development, evaluation, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Build production-grade LLM and agentic AI applications using Spring AI — including RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, tool-use patterns, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Architect and operate AWS AI infrastructure (Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, Agent Core, SageMaker) alongside core AWS services (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway).
• Design and implement scalable microservices and distributed systems in Java, TypeScript, and Python that power the Archer AI platform.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads — including LLM evaluation pipelines and automated regression testing for AI outputs — using Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
• Drive AI-specific operational practices: observability, drift detection, quality scoring, feedback loops, and incident response for non-deterministic systems.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; author AI specs, design documents, and architectural decision records.
• Mentor engineers, conduct thorough code reviews, and champion engineering excellence.

Requirements

• Spec-Driven AI SDLC: Deep expertise in the AI software development lifecycle with a specification-first mindset.
• Experience authoring AI feature specs (acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, prompt contracts) and driving the full lifecycle from prototyping through evaluation frameworks, A/B testing, deployment of non-deterministic systems, and production monitoring (drift detection, quality scoring, feedback loops).
• Track record of shipping AI-powered features through multiple product cycles with engineering rigor.
• AWS AI Infrastructure: Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, Agent Core, SageMaker, and Amazon Q.
• Solid knowledge of core AWS infrastructure including compute (ECS/EKS, Lambda), databases (RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache), networking (VPC, ALB, CloudFront), and security (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager).
• Experience architecting AI infrastructure pipelines with cost optimization and high availability.
• LLM Frameworks & Agentic AI: Hands-on experience building production applications with Spring AI.
• Solid understanding of LLM application patterns (prompt management, RAG, context orchestration, vector stores, evaluation) and agentic workflows (multi-step agents, tool-use orchestration, planning loops).
• Java, TypeScript & Python: 5+ years of professional software engineering with strong proficiency across all three languages — Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud), TypeScript (Node.js, modern frameworks), and Python (AI tooling, evaluation frameworks).
• Comfortable choosing the right language for each task.
• Enterprise & Large-Scale Systems: Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message brokers (Kafka, SQS/SNS), caching (Redis, ElastiCache), and relational/NoSQL database design.
• DevOps & Infrastructure: Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), and GitOps workflows.
• Problem Solving & Communication: Excellent analytical skills and the ability to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges independently. Outstanding written and verbal communication — able to articulate technical concepts to diverse audiences and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• DynamoDB
• Java
• JavaScript
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Node.js
• NoSQL
• Python
• Redis
• SDLC
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot
• Terraform
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401K matching program
• Flexible Time Off
• 11 paid holidays
• 1 volunteer day per year