Partner , Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer

Position: Partner 20, Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI, bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism.

a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.

We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, Git Hub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

The Role We’re hiring a Senior IT & AI Platform Engineer to build, deploy, and operate enterprise systems, AI applications, and cloud infrastructure that help teams across a16z execute with speed, confidence, and security. You’ll lead complex technical deployments, serve as a trusted technical escalation point for stakeholders, manage privileged access across critical systems, and reduce friction through reliable automations and self-service workflows.

This is a hands-on role within the IT Systems team, working closely with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Product, Data, and other business units across the firm. On a typical day, you’ll be orchestrating multiple AI coding agents, managing AWS or GCP infrastructure, and guiding a business unit to deploy a custom vibe-coded application. You’ll be expected to take on complex, often ambiguous or urgent requests, understand what’s needed, and deliver outcomes that are secure, well documented, and easy to support.

This role requires an in-office presence 3 days a week in either our San Francisco, CA or Menlo Park, CA office.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

Take ownership of the firm's toughest IT challenges around AI deployments, making consequential technical decisions and building lasting solutions that teams across a16z depend onCo-own the technical implementation of new enterprise systems and emerging AI applications, including evaluating, testing, and deploying new capabilities securely and at scale

Identify opportunities to reduce manual toil and build automations across the entire IT organization

Partner with business teams and internal builders to turn ideas into working applications—from early prototypes through deployment, hardening, and ongoing support

Build and operate AWS and GCP infrastructure

Partner with Cybersecurity to protect sensitive data and manage privileged access across AI, SaaS, cloud, endpoint, and internal systems

Work with internal stakeholders to support Databricks and cloud AI services, including workspace configuration, service principals, access controls, and operational monitoring

Serve as a trusted technical escalation point for cybersecurity, engineering, data, and other business units. Work with stakeholders to untangle complex problems and find a clear path forward

Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis to restore service and prevent future issues across the firm’s enterprise systems

Maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and decision records, and share knowledge to help the IT team operate more effectively

Minimum Qualifications 8 years of experience in platform engineering, systems administration, cloud infrastructure, or IT engineering, with responsibility for production systemsA power user of advanced AI workflows, going beyond such tools as ChatGPT/Codex, Claude Code, Wispr Flow Experience transforming IT operations by…