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Stand8 provides end to end IT solutions to enterprise partners across the United States and with offices in Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, and more including internationally in Mexico and India.
An AI Platform Engineer will design and operate the infrastructure and governance that enables enterprise AI adoption. This role will provide developers and business users with self-service access to approved AI capabilities while enforcing security, cost, data protection, and access controls. The position will support AI coding assistants, cloud-native AI platforms, retrieval systems, model orchestration, monitoring, and enterprise AI subscriptions. The ideal candidate combines platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, security, and application development expertise.
Location & Work Type
Location: Englewood, CO
Work Type: Onsite
Key Responsibilities
- Infrastructure and Scaling: stand up and maintain the compute environment AI workloads run on, including containerized and GPU-backed resources, so workloads run efficiently and cost-effectively
- Automate safe rollouts: build automated pipelines for rolling out AI platform updates, with rollback built in
- Build retrieval systems: connect AI models to the organization's own data so responses are grounded in real, current information
- Maintain vector stores: connect and maintain the vector stores and data sources retrieval depends on
- Route and gate model access: give people one governed way to reach approved AI models and providers, routing each request to the model that actually fits the job
- Redact sensitive data: strip sensitive or private data out of prompts before they reach a model
- Build guardrails: put guardrails in place to catch harmful, biased, or simply wrong AI output before a user sees it
- Enable self-service without losing control: set up access and permissions so people across the organization can use approved AI capabilities on their own, while the platform still enforces where the line is
- Monitor system health: watch system health, response times, and error rates, and catch problems before people have to report them
- Track usage and spend: track usage and spend at the model and feature level so cost surprises do not happen
- Apply cost discipline: apply the same cost-management discipline to AI spend that the platform team applies everywhere else
- Build self-service tools: build self-service tools and APIs so other teams can ship AI features without needing to understand the plumbing underneath
- Report on AI performance: expose usage, spend, and performance metrics through APIs or dashboards so AI costs and performance are visible across the organization
Qualifications
Required:
- Platform engineering experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps
- AI in production: experience running AI or LLM platforms in production, including retrieval systems that ground model answers in real company data
- AI systems judgment: understands that AI systems behave differently from regular software, and knows how to test, evaluate, and monitor them so problems get caught early
- Programming and automation: strong Python skills, including building integrations against APIs
- Cloud and containers: solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or Azure) and building on containerized infrastructure
- Cost and model judgment: some sense of cost and performance tradeoffs between AI models, and when a smaller, cheaper model is the right call
- Reporting and transparency: experience building or exposing metrics through APIs or dashboards for reporting and visibility beyond the immediate team
- Security mindset: builds with security as a first-class concern: least-privilege access, careful handling of sensitive data, sensible defaults
- Self-service thinking: understands how to make AI capability self-service, and where the guardrails actually need to hold
- Full-stack comfort: equally comfortable in infrastructure, automation, integration, and application code
Preferred (Optional):
- Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code experience
- Exposure to cloud cost management or FinOps practices
- Deeper experience with retrieval pipelines: chunking, embeddings, indexing, and ranking, not just calling a vector database
- Experience routing requests across multiple AI model providers based on cost, speed, or capability
- Judgment about when a simple, predictable workflow beats an open-ended AI agent, with experience building both
- Familiarity with container orchestration for AI or compute-heavy workloads
- Familiarity with governing tool access for AI agents, such as scoped permissions or a central tool registry, as agentic workflows become more common
- Certifications are a plus, not required. What you have actually built matters more.
Benefits
- Medical coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) through Anthem
- Dental/Vision/Various Ancillary coverages through Unum
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Paid-time-off options
- Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discount programs through ADP WorkforceNow
Additional Details
The base range for this contract position is $90 - $100 / per hour, depending on experience. Our pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires of this position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered.
About Us
Stand8 provides end-to-end IT solutions to enterprise partners across the United States and globally with offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Mexico, Japan, India, and more. Stand8 focuses on the "bleeding edge" of technology and leverages automation, process, marketing, and over fifteen years of success and growth to provide a world-class experience for our customers, partners, and employees.
Our mission is to impact the world positively by creating success through PEOPLE, PROCESS, and TECHNOLOGY.
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