AI Platform Engineering Leader

Soni; New York (NY); On-site; USD 216,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Soni is seeking a strategic Head of AI Platform Engineering to define and deliver the runtime foundation for enterprise AI workflows, model integrations, and production-grade AI applications. You will lead cross-functional teams across product, security, and architecture, shaping a scalable platform, governance, reliability, and observability while driving cost efficiency.

This role demands deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, MLOps, and enterprise integration to enable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Management, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience leading software engineering organizations, including management of senior technical professionals and engineering leaders.
• Strong technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, AI/ML infrastructure, large-scale data ecosystems, or enterprise application platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading teams responsible for production runtime environments, orchestration services, workflow engines, inference platforms, or operational AI systems.
• Experience owning product and engineering roadmaps and delivering enterprise-scale platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, architecture, and delivery for the platform services that enable AI-powered workflow execution and agent operations.
• Build and manage high-performing engineering teams through hiring, mentoring, coaching, and career development initiatives.
• Partner with product, data, security, and architecture stakeholders to deliver scalable AI platform capabilities aligned with enterprise objectives.
• Define and execute a technology roadmap for runtime services, orchestration capabilities, model access layers, enterprise integrations, and execution frameworks.
• Ensure platform solutions are reliable, secure, observable, and optimized for performance across diverse AI workloads.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native platforms

AI/ML infrastructure

CI/CD practices

Communications

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering/IT/Business

Tools

AWS

Bedrock

SageMaker

Lambda

Step Functions

EKS

API Gateway

DynamoDB

S3

IAM

CloudWatch

Job description

Soni is seeking a strategic Head of AI Platform Engineering to define and deliver the runtime foundation for enterprise AI workflows, model integrations, and production-grade AI applications. You will lead cross-functional teams across product, security, and architecture, shaping a scalable platform, governance, reliability, and observability while driving cost efficiency.

This role demands deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, MLOps, and enterprise integration to enable