AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

RTX (Raytheon); Farmington (CT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

RTX Enterprise Services is seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate reusable software, services, infrastructure, and runtimes enabling AI/ML solutions across RTX.

The role focuses on production platform capabilities, not just deploying infrastructure, and requires collaboration with AI Architects, Applied AI Engineers, cybersecurity, data, and enterprise technology teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years hands-on software engineering experience developing backend services and APIs.
• Experience building and operating distributed backend systems in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of security, identity, and enterprise integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities.
• Build and integrate AI platform capabilities including model access, routing, and tool integration.
• Develop secure capabilities for identity, authentication, authorization, secrets management.

Skills

Backend software engineering

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Education

University Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Engineering or related STEM

Advanced Degree in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Date Posted: 2026-09-17

Country: United States of America

Location: US-CT-FARMINGTON-0004 ~ 4 Farm Springs Rd ~ 4 FARM SPRINGS

Position Role Type: Hybrid

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of "U.S. Person" go here. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status: Not Required

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team:

We are seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the reusable software, services, infrastructure, and runtime capabilities that enable Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions to be developed, deployed, secured, observed, and scaled across RTX. The ideal candidate combines strong backend software engineering with cloud, DevOps, and AI platform experience. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building production platform capabilities, not simply deploying infrastructure. You will work closely with AI Architects, Applied AI Engineers, application teams, cybersecurity, data, and enterprise technology organizations to provide secure and reusable capabilities that accelerate AI adoption across RTX.

What You Will Do

Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed platform capabilities that support enterprise AI applications, models, and agents.

Build and integrate AI platform capabilities including model access and routing, AI gateways, agent runtimes, lifecycle management, tool integration, model serving, retrieval services, and related enterprise AI services.

Develop secure capabilities for agent and application identity, authentication and authorization, secrets management, tool access, permissions, and integration with enterprise systems.

Design and automate deployment across development, test, and production environments using cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.

Build observability capabilities including logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting, execution telemetry, and cost visibility for AI applications and agentic workloads.

Develop platform capabilities supporting AI evaluation, model lifecycle management, MLOps, configuration, versioning, and production operations.

Design platform services for scalability, availability, resilience, performance, security, and support across commercial cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and restricted environments.

Partner with AI Architecture, Applied AI, Application Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data, and product teams to translate solution needs into reusable enterprise platform capabilities and continuously improve the developer experience.

What You Will Learn

How enterprise AI platforms enable Generative AI, machine learning, and agentic applications to operate securely and consistently across a global aerospace and defense company.

How models, agents, tools, identity, data, evaluation, and observability come together as reusable enterprise platform capabilities.

How AI workloads are designed and operated across commercial cloud, hybrid, on-premises, and restricted computing environments.

How production agentic systems introduce new engineering challenges around identity, tool access, runtime governance, state, observability, and operational control.

How emerging AI platforms, orchestration technologies, interoperability standards, and cloud services can be evaluated and incorporated into enterprise architectures.

How reusable platform capabilities can reduce duplication and accelerate AI solution delivery across multiple RTX business units.

Qualifications You Must Have

A University Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related STEM discipline and a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience. A minimum of 5 years of hands-on software engineering experience developing backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, or similar producti