Staff AI Platform Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Design, build, and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure, including model serving, vector databases, embedding pipelines, and compute environments. Develop and maintain GPU-based inference infrastructure to support low-latency, high-throughput AI workloads in production. Build and operate data infrastructure including ingestion pipelines, object storage, vector stores, and ETL processes. Design and maintain deployment platforms using containerisation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Implement observability across AI systems, including telemetry, logging, tracing, alerting, and AI-specific performance monitoring. Build reusable internal tooling, deployment patterns, and platform abstractions that improve engineering productivity. Define and enforce platform standards across reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence. Partner closely with engineering teams to translate infrastructure requirements into scalable platform capabilities. Evaluate and implement new platform technologies to ensure long-term scalability and operational efficiency. Desired Candidate Profile 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend systems engineering. Strong experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, and cost optimisation. Deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and containerised infrastructure supporting AI or high-scale workloads. Strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code environments. Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines and distributed systems. Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar backend technologies. Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and production-scale database operations. Hands-on experience with observability tooling including tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting. Experience with GPU inference infrastructure, vector databases, RAG pipelines, or AI platform environments is highly desirable. Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions, trade-offs, and operational considerations clearly. Company Industry ConsultingManagement ConsultingAdvisory Services Department / Functional Area IT Software Keywords Staff AI Platform Engineer Get real-time job updates only on our App