AI Platform Engineer

Job#: 3036992

Job Description:
AI Platform Engineer

Location: REMOTE

Role Overview

We are hiring a Platform Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure, orchestration, integrations, and guardrails that enable conversational, agentic, and automation AI systems to run securely, reliably, and at scale in a healthcare environment. This is a foundational role within a small, high-impact AI pod. The individual will build the platform capabilities needed to productionize AI solutions and will also serve as a technical leader and mentor.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure for conversational AI systems, agentic workflows, automation pipelines, and real-time systems.
• Develop scalable and reliable systems for deploying AI applications.
• Build and manage orchestration layers for multi-step AI workflows, agent execution, and asynchronous processing.
• Design and implement secure integrations across enterprise systems, external services, and internal APIs.
• Build and enforce system-level guardrails, including input/output validation and secure execution environments.
• Ensure systems meet data privacy requirements and internal governance standards, enabling auditability and traceability.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting for AI interactions, workflow execution, and system performance.
• Support data ingestion and processing pipelines for AI systems, including managing infrastructure for document storage and vector databases.
• Act as a role model for engineering best practices, mentoring developers in backend engineering and AI system infrastructure.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• Strong experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Proven experience building production-grade distributed systems.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, asynchronous or event-driven systems, and workflow orchestration systems.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems and external APIs/services.
• Experience supporting or working with AI/ML systems in production.
• Experience working in healthcare or other regulated environments.

Technical Skills:

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with LLM-based applications, multi-step AI workflows or agent systems, and RAG or data-driven AI pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data privacy requirements and building compliant, auditable systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms, with Azure being preferred.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools and distributed system design patterns.
• Familiarity with vector databases, streaming or real-time systems, and AI orchestration frameworks.

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