AI Platform Engineer

New York University is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve shared infrastructure and platform services for secure, reliable, and scalable institutional AI. The role develops production-ready infrastructure and reusable capabilities, including cloud services, model gateways, APIs, deployment pipelines, observability, and platform reliability.

Responsibilities:

• The AI Platform Engineer is a senior technical individual contributor responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving the shared infrastructure and platform services that enable secure, reliable, and scalable use of artificial intelligence across New York University (NYU)
• This position develops and maintains the core technical foundation supporting NYU’s enterprise AI capabilities—including cloud infrastructure, model gateways and routing, APIs, identity and access management (IAM), automated deployment pipelines, observability, usage/cost telemetry, and overall platform reliability
• Working within architectural patterns established by the AI Solutions Architect and adhering to institutional security and technology standards, the AI Platform Engineer translates AI architecture into production-ready infrastructure and reusable platform capabilities
• This role is highly hands-on and is expected to build, automate, and operate infrastructure directly