AI Platform Engineer

Location: Parsippany

Kforce has a client in Parsippany, NJ that is seeking an AI Platform Engineer.

Position Summary:

The AI Platform Engineer will design and develop scalable AI workflow orchestration systems on Microsoft Azure. This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on designing and building production-grade AI automation systems in a regulated operational environment.

Key Responsibilities:

* Design and implement scalable workflow orchestration platforms using technologies such as Temporal, Azure Durable Functions, Camunda, or similar tools

* Build long-running, fault-tolerant workflows for underwriting, onboarding, fulfillment, and operational processes

* Develop durable execution patterns including retries, checkpointing, recovery, and asynchronous coordination

* Architect event-driven systems using:
Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, APIs, distributed messaging patterns

* Develop highly scalable distributed AI execution infrastructure

* Architect and deploy cloud-native solutions using:
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) , Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Service Bus, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, API Management, Key Vault

* Implement secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure patterns

* Build AI-enabled workflow systems leveraging: LLM APIs, AI agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Tool orchestration, Human-in-the-loop workflows

* Integrate AI services into operational lending processes

* Build secure, scalable, and highly available AI infrastructure patterns

* Support model deployment, evaluation pipelines, prompt management, and lifecycle governance

* Integrate orchestration workflows with LOS platforms, CRMs, document processing and extraction systems, and third-party APIs

* Build extensible service layers around existing lending infrastructure

* Implement monitoring, telemetry, logging, and workflow observability solutions
* 7+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience

* 3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure

* Strong experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures

* Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as:
Temporal, Camunda, Azure Durable Functions

* Proficiency in one or more of the following:
Type Script, Python, Go, C#

* Experience with:
Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM)

* Experience integrating APIs and microservices

Preferred:

* Experience with AI/LLM platforms and orchestration frameworks

* Familiarity with:
Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI SDKs, MCP architectures

* Mortgage or lending technology experience preferred

* Experience in regulated enterprise environments

* Familiarity with operational workflow automation and business process systems

* Strong systems-thinking and architecture skills

* Ability to work independently in fast-moving environments

* Comfortable balancing experimentation with production reliability

* Passion for AI-native operational automation and workflow engineering

Technology Stack:

* Microsoft Azure

* Azure OpenAI

* AKS

* Temporal/Camunda

* Python/Type Script

* Kubernetes

* Cosmos DB

* PostgreSQL

* Event Grid

* Service Bus

* Terraform

* Git Hub Actions