Senior AI Platform Engineer

Summary of Position:

• We are looking for an experienced AI Platform Engineer to design build and operate a scalable Generative AI platform on AWS.
• This role focuses on enabling teams to rapidly build and deploy GenAI and agentic applications through robust reusable platform capabilities.
• The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with strong AWS fundamentals GenAI ecosystem knowledge and a platform engineering mindset capable of delivering quick PoCs and production-grade solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design platform services for model access orchestration security prompt lifecycle management and multi-model routing.
• Build reusable capabilities for RAG pipelines embeddings and agentic workflows.
• Good Knowledge working with MCP A2A and agentic Frameworks
• Implement scalable AWS infrastructure using Bedrock/agentcore services compute (Lambda ECS/EKS EC2) storage (S3 DynamoDB) and networking (VPC load balancers private endpoints).
• Implement security and governance using IAM Secrets Manager Identity and secure API patterns.
• Support developers with integration debugging prompt tuning and performance issues. Understanding cost optimization and multi-model strategies.
• Develop rapid PoCs for new GenAI tools frameworks and capabilities.
• Implement observability including tracing latency token usage and cost monitoring.
• Collaborate with engineering data and product teams; maintain platform documentation and standards.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools to enhance solution design coding efficiency and delivery speed.

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5-10 years experience with Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong experience with AWS core services and networking (VPC DNS ALB)
• Experience building GenAI systems using LLM APIs RAG or agent-based architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Python and API/microservices development. Familiarity with containers (Docker) Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and scalable architecture design. Experience with AI orchestration frameworks and vector databases.

Work hours: 12 PM to 9 PM IST

Relocation assistance: Yes

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