Job#: 3043318 Job Description: Role: AI Platform Engineer
Location: Hybrid - 4 days/week onsite | Must be willing to interview in person
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Description:We are seeking a Senior AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale next-generation AI solutions for an Enterprise Data Platform on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform). This is a highly technical, hands-on individual contributor role focused on developing production-grade multi-agent AI systems, AI-powered workflows, and developer-facing capabilities.
The ideal candidate will combine deep software engineering expertise with practical experience building and operating LLM-based applications in production environments. This role requires ownership of solution architecture, hands-on development, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver scalable, secure, and observable AI solutions.
Key ResponsibilitiesAI Solution Architecture- Design and implement multi-agent AI systems and agent orchestration frameworks.
- Evaluate architectural trade-offs, including:
- Single-agent vs. multi-agent architectures
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vs. fine-tuning approaches
- Agent workflow design and orchestration strategies
- Contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technical design documentation.
- Define scalable, secure, and maintainable AI platform patterns.
AI Application Development- Develop and deploy production-grade AI applications and agentic workflows.
- Build solutions supporting:
- Natural Language to SQL (NL-to-SQL)
- Semantic search
- Metadata enrichment
- Intelligent automation workflows
- Implement AI guardrails, observability, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks.
- Leverage modern agent development tools and coding assistants.
Full-Stack Engineering- Develop backend services using:
- Build frontend experiences using:
- Create chat interfaces, APIs, developer tooling, and user-facing AI experiences.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery from design through production deployment.
Engineering Excellence- Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code.
- Lead technical reviews and establish engineering best practices.
- Perform root-cause analysis and troubleshoot complex AI agent failures.
- Serve as the team's technical expert for advanced AI and platform engineering challenges.
- Drive continuous improvements in reliability, scalability, and performance.
Collaboration & Leadership- Partner closely with Product Management, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and technical roadmap discussions.
- Mentor team members and promote knowledge sharing.
- Support onboarding and technical development of new engineers.
Required QualificationsExperience- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on coding expertise with modern application development practices.
- Experience building and operating AI-powered applications or LLM-based systems in production environments.
- Ability to interpret ambiguous business requirements and independently deliver robust, well-tested solutions.
- Experience designing scalable cloud-native applications.
Technical Skills- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Agent-based AI architectures
- API development and microservices
- Python development
- FastAPI
- Frontend development using Angular or React
- Production software engineering and DevOps practices
Agentic AI Experience- Experience building agent-based systems using frameworks such as:
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
- CrewAI
- LangGraph
- Similar agent orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with agentic development tools and AI-assisted coding environments, including:
- OpenCode
- Claude Code
- Comparable AI developer productivity tools
Preferred QualificationsCloud & Platform Experience- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Cloud-native application architecture
- Platform engineering and AI infrastructure
Machine Learning & AI- Applied machine learning experience, including:
- Embeddings
- Classification
- Clustering
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Model evaluation and benchmarking
- Experience implementing AI evaluation frameworks and quality metrics.
Data & Governance- Familiarity with:
- Data engineering principles
- Enterprise data platforms
- Metadata management
- Data governance processes
Education- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
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