Lead Platform Engineer for AI & Automation

Lam Research; Villach; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lam Research in Villach, Austria, is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead to build and operate the foundational platform enabling AI agents and automation services. You will create self-service capabilities, golden paths, deployment standards, and run environments to scale intelligent automation across Lam.

You will mentor engineers, set platform standards, and collaborate with SRE and application teams to ensure reliability, security, and governance in a global enterprise context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Experience building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience operating mission‑critical cloud services at scale.
• Strong troubleshooting and systems engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of Lam's Agent Platform and Internal Developer Platform.
• Build and operate the cloud-native infrastructure supporting AI agents and automation services.
• Establish platform engineering standards, reusable templates, golden paths, and self-service capabilities.
• Implement GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code, and secure software delivery practices.
• Design deployment pipelines, observability standards, operational controls, and runtime governance.
• Partner with architects, SRE teams, and application teams to onboard services onto the platform.
• Define scalability, reliability, and resiliency requirements for enterprise automation workloads.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native engineering practices across the organization.
• Mentor engineers and build platform engineering excellence.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

SRE practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Lam Research in Villach, Austria, is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead to build and operate the foundational platform enabling AI agents and automation services. You will create self-service capabilities, golden paths, deployment standards, and run environments to scale intelligent automation across Lam.

You will mentor engineers, set platform standards, and collaborate with SRE and application teams to ensure reliability, security, and governance in a global enterprise context.