Sr Staff AI Platform Engineer

For our client, we are seeking a Sr Staff AI Platform Engineer to join the team of a leader in the Finance & Insurance space.

This role will shape the technical foundation for AI-enabled platforms that support secure, scalable, and high-performance enterprise use cases. The ideal candidate will lead roadmap definition, architectural strategy, and engineering standards across multiple teams while helping advance next-generation AI capabilities. This position also partners closely with engineering stakeholders to prototype emerging patterns, improve developer workflows, and strengthen platform reliability and throughput.

Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available

Compensation: $220,000 – $255,800 annually

Responsibilities

• Define and own the 3–5 year technical roadmap for a high-scale, AI-ready data lakehouse
• Prototype and benchmark emerging AI architectural patterns and technologies
• Set standards for code quality, CI/CD processes, and system design
• Design platform-level interfaces for agentic workflows with robust human-in-the-loop mechanisms
• Build secure access and interpretation layers for enterprise data

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise in Java or Scala, and Python
• Experience building extensible frameworks, high-throughput APIs, and developer libraries
• Hands-on experience with multi-agent orchestration and transitioning to agentic RAG
• Knowledge of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI agent interoperability
• Experience implementing AI-native CI/CD features and automated workflows for human approval

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI technology and platform engineering
• Access to a high-performance software environment focused on reducing latency and increasing throughput
• Engagement with emerging trends in the AI ecosystem, including multi-agent technology and reasoning-based retrieval
• Flexibility to influence architectural choices across multiple teams and projects

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.