Sr AI Platform Engineer

Job Description

Role:
Sr AI Platform Engineer.

Location:

Bellevue, Frisco, Kansas, Atlanta (Onsite).

• API development: production Python with FastAPI or comparable; versioned REST APIs, contracts, governance.
• Batch and real‑time data pipelines:
  Kafka or comparable streaming, plus CDC or incremental batch; built and operated end‑to‑end.
• Caching and key‑value serving: production Redis or Valkey; cache invalidation, TTL strategies, hot‑path serving.
• Vector databases and knowledge graphs:
  Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Neo4j, or comparable; embeddings and retrieval patterns.
• AI software engineering: hands‑on building data infrastructure for AI and ML use cases (RAG, agent tooling, feature serving).
• Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog: hands‑on production experience.
• Delta Lake internals: transaction log, time travel, and Change Data Feed (CDF).
• SQL and data modeling: comfortable with point‑lookup vs analytical query patterns.
• CI/CD:
  Git Lab or Git Hub Actions; automated tests for data pipelines.
• Communication: works directly with senior architects, product managers, and domain stakeholders.

• Embedded analytical engines:
  DuckDB or comparable.
• Microsoft Fabric / One Lake / Power BI Semantic Models: production experience.
• SLAs and SLOs: defining and operating for data products or APIs.
• MCP‑style tooling: data access for AI agents.
• Enterprise‑scale data serving: prior work on serving infrastructure at large enterprise.

• Azure, Python, Databricks, Snowflake, AI, SQL, CI/CD pipelines.