Job#: 3047770 Job Description: Role: Sr AI Platform Engineer
Location: Hybrid
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Rate: Negotiable based on experience
Description:The Senior AI Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying intelligent AI-powered applications, multi-agent systems, and automation solutions that leverage Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and cloud-native technologies. This role combines advanced software engineering, cloud architecture, and AI application development to build scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready solutions that transform data into actionable business insights.
The ideal candidate has experience building and deploying enterprise-grade AI applications and agent-based architectures, with expertise in Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), Python development, cloud data technologies, and modern AI frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and deploy production-grade multi-agent AI systems using modern orchestration frameworks and state management capabilities.
- Develop intelligent applications, cognitive services, and AI-powered workflows that automate processes, generate recommendations, identify patterns, predict outcomes, and enable self-service capabilities.
- Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.
- Develop and maintain secure integrations between AI applications, enterprise data platforms, and operational systems.
- Design, implement, and optimize AI models and algorithms to solve complex business and operational challenges.
- Build and maintain cloud-native AI services on Google Cloud Platform, including Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI, BigQuery, and Pub/Sub.
- Establish CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, infrastructure automation, and software delivery best practices.
- Implement observability, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and tracing capabilities for AI and agent-based systems.
- Develop guardrails, validation mechanisms, prompt security controls, and human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure safe and reliable AI operations.
- Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders to operationalize AI solutions.
- Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization strategies across AI platforms and services.
- Research emerging AI technologies and evaluate opportunities to enhance organizational capabilities and business outcomes.
Required Skills
- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Python
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI Frameworks
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- SQL
- REST APIs
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD Pipelines
- GitHub Actions
- Cloud Data Platforms
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience developing and deploying production software systems.
- 1-2+ years of experience building and supporting AI, machine learning, generative AI, or LLM-powered applications.
- Experience designing and deploying multi-agent, distributed, or service-oriented architectures in production environments.
- Strong Python programming skills, including asynchronous and concurrent application development.
- Experience with backend frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
- Hands-on experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies.
- Experience building and optimizing RAG solutions, including vector databases, embeddings, chunking strategies, and retrieval evaluation.
- Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, or pgvector.
- Experience deploying solutions to cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong SQL and cloud data warehouse experience.
- Experience with containerization and cloud-native deployment technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building evaluation, monitoring, and observability frameworks for AI applications.
- Understanding of AI safety principles, prompt injection protection, output validation, and secure execution practices.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, API design, version control, scalability, security, and coding best practices.
Preferred Experience
- Experience implementing model routing, cost optimization strategies, and AI workload management at scale.
- Experience deploying human-in-the-loop validation frameworks and high-reliability AI solutions.
- Experience supporting automotive, EV charging, IoT, telematics, or connected vehicle ecosystems.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or related tool integration standards.
- Experience working in startup environments or building net-new products in rapidly evolving environments.
- Experience operationalizing machine learning or AI prototypes into scalable enterprise platforms.
- Experience with canary releases, shadow deployments, and progressive rollout strategies.
Work Environment
- Hybrid position requiring onsite presence four days per week.
- Collaboration with cross-functional engineering, product, analytics, and business teams.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, automation, and cloud technologies supporting enterprise-scale solutions.
Education
Required- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
Preferred- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related discipline.
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