AI Platform Engineer

Apex Systems; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking an AI Platform Engineer in Milwaukee to design, build, and rollout standardized AI agents, guardrails, and workflows across the enterprise. The role focuses on enabling AI-enabled development with speed, safety, and consistency for development teams company-wide.

You will contribute to governance, verification standards, and documentation while working in a hybrid environment to deliver high‑quality AI capabilities and maintain enterprise-grade platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of experience developing in Python, Java, or JavaScript/Node
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, LLM-based agents, or agentic workflows
• Familiarity with AI guardrail and evaluation concepts, such as input/output validation, policy enforcement, and measuring the quality of agent output
• Experience with major testing frameworks and writing automated unit and integration tests
• Experience building software and deploying it through CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and DevOps principles
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within a scrum team
• Ability to communicate proactively and manage expectations with stakeholders such as digital product, software architecture, security, and others

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain standardized AI agents, skills, and reusable workflows for software developers across the enterprise
• Design and implement AI guardrails that are enforced in code and pipelines, including automated quality, security, and policy checks for AI-assisted development
• Bring rigor to AI-assisted delivery by defining and automating verification standards, such as code review checks, test quality, and evaluation of agent output
• Version-control agents, prompts, and skills like any other code, and keep them aligned with enterprise engineering standards
• Partner with security, architecture, and risk stakeholders so AI solutions meet governance expectations before enterprise rollout
• Support adoption by writing clear documentation, enabling developer teams, and collecting feedback to improve usability and outcomes
• Collaborate within a hybrid team by taking part in scrum ceremonies and giving constructive feedback in code merge reviews
• Take ownership of backlog items and contribute to git repositories to move initiatives forward and deliver high-quality features

Skills

Python

Java

JavaScript / Node

AI-assisted development

AI guardrails

Testing frameworks

CI/CD

SDLC / DevOps

Agile / Scrum

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

Job Description: Our great client in Milwaukee, WI has an immediate opening for a AI Platform Engineer.

Job#: 3057384 Job Description: Our great client in Milwaukee, WI has an immediate opening for a AI Platform Engineer.

What you will be doing day to day:

• Creating reusable AI patterns and capabilities.
• Developing and supporting MCP servers.
• Helping product teams adopt AI within their development lifecycle.
• Supporting/administering enterprise AI platforms and tools.
• Establishing governance and rigor around AI usage and prompting.

Ideally looking for experience with Github Copilot

About the role:

As an AI PDLC Engineer, you will help shape how software engineers across the enterprise build with AI. You'll design, build, and roll out standardized AI agents, guardrails, and engineering practices that make AI-assisted development faster, safer, and more consistent. Your work will reach development teams company-wide. Our goal is for AI to improve both delivery speed and quality, not one at the expense of the other.

This role sits where platform engineering meets AI enablement. You will turn emerging AI capabilities into trusted, reusable, enterprise-grade solutions that developers can adopt with confidence.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build, test, and maintain standardized AI agents, skills, and reusable workflows for software developers across the enterprise.
• Design and implement AI guardrails that are enforced in code and pipelines, not just documented, including automated quality, security, and policy checks for AI-assisted development.
• Bring rigor to AI-assisted delivery by defining and automating verification standards, such as code review checks, test quality, and evaluation of agent output.
• Version-control agents, prompts, and skills like any other code, and keep them aligned with enterprise engineering standards.
• Partner with security, architecture, and risk stakeholders so AI solutions meet governance expectations before enterprise rollout.
• Support adoption by writing clear documentation, enabling developer teams, and collecting feedback to improve usability and outcomes.
• Collaborate within a hybrid team by taking part in scrum ceremonies and giving constructive feedback in code merge reviews.
• Take ownership of backlog items and contribute to git repositories to move initiatives forward and deliver high-quality features.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing in one or more of the following programming languages:
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript / Node
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools, LLM‑based agents, or agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with AI guardrail and evaluation concepts, such as input/output validation, policy enforcement, and measuring the quality of agent output.
• Experience with major testing frameworks and writing automated unit and integration tests.
• Experience building software and deploying it through CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and DevOps principles.
• Experience with agile methodologies and working within a scrum team.
• Ability to communicate proactively and manage expectations with stakeholders such as digital product, software architecture, security, and others.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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