Senior AI Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer to help build and scale an AI-native enterprise platform where machine learning models, retrieval systems, AI agents, and intelligent applications operate as reliable production services.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role focused on taking AI from experimentation into scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready systems.

What you'll do

• Design and build platform capabilities for deploying and operating production AI systems
• Develop automated pipelines for model deployment, packaging, versioning, testing, rollout and rollback
• Build evaluation frameworks covering model quality, retrieval performance, latency, cost and business outcomes
• Implement observability across models, inference services, retrieval pipelines and AI agents
• Partner with ML Engineers to productionise models and improve deployment reliability
• Work with Platform Engineering on infrastructure, scaling, security and resilience
• Support A/B testing, canary releases and progressive deployments
• Implement governance around reproducibility, versioning, auditability and compliance
• Automate operational processes and improve engineering productivity
• Contribute to modern agentic AI development and delivery practices

What we're looking for

• Strong experience operating production ML or AI platforms
• Solid software engineering background with experience in automation and operational tooling
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containers and distributed systems
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and release automation
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, metrics and tracing
• Understanding of the ML/AI lifecycle, deployment strategies and production evaluation
• Experience working across ML, Platform, Data and Product Engineering teams
• Strong troubleshooting skills with a focus on reliability and operational excellence
• Ability to simplify complex environments through automation and reusable platform capabilities

Ideal background

MLOps / AI Platform Engineering / Cloud Platform Engineering / DevOps for ML / AI Infrastructure

If you have experience building the infrastructure that takes AI and ML systems into reliable enterprise production, I'd be happy to hear from you.

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We believe in equal opportunity for all and actively encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

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