AI Platform Lead - Production LLM & Tooling

present of AI; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontra is seeking a Senior Platform Lead to own the shared search and AI platform that other engineers rely on. You will guide retrieval, model access, evaluation, and agent tooling, balancing roadmap decisions with strong technical leadership.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and people judgment, shaping architecture, and coaching engineers through complex projects. You’ll decide what to build vs. buy while ensuring security and data privacy in production LLM workflows.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience running a platform used by multiple teams.
• Ability to coach engineers and lead architectural decisions.
• Familiarity with retrieval, evaluation tooling, and agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the shared search and AI platform used by other engineers.
• Shape roadmap, architecture, and implementation decisions; balance build vs. buy.
• Set quality bars, security, and data privacy considerations for production systems.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers to deliver scalable, reliable platform capabilities.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Technical leadership

Platform ownership

Coaching engineers

Job description

Ontra is seeking a Senior Platform Lead to own the shared search and AI platform that other engineers rely on. You will guide retrieval, model access, evaluation, and agent tooling, balancing roadmap decisions with strong technical leadership.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering and people judgment, shaping architecture, and coaching engineers through complex projects. You’ll decide what to build vs. buy while ensuring security and data privacy in production LLM workflows.