Enterprise AI Platform Architect & Lead Engineer

Heitmeyer Consulting; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and operations of enterprise AI platforms and developer tools. This hands-on role drives reusable AI capabilities across the organization, guiding engineering teams and ensuring scalable, secure solutions.

You will architect AI services, integrate with cloud and security platforms, and mentor engineers while delivering production-ready implementations using Java/Spring Boot and modern AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, AI engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience designing and delivering production-quality AI, LLM, or developer-platform solutions.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and AI services such as Gemini and Vertex AI, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of AI agent architecture, LLM integrations, orchestration patterns, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot development experience.
• Experience developing and integrating REST APIs and OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect security patterns.
• Experience with software development lifecycle, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and development of enterprise AI platforms, agent frameworks, and developer productivity capabilities.
• Design and build reusable AI services, orchestration patterns, reference implementations, and shared integrations.
• Develop and integrate AI solutions using GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, MCP, and agentic frameworks.
• Build secure, scalable, observable, and maintainable custom-agent capabilities for enterprise engineering teams.
• Integrate AI services with cloud, security, identity, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Develop secure REST APIs and integrations using Java, Spring Boot, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect.
• Establish standards for AI platform versioning, releases, documentation, support, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Implement observability for AI services, including logging, metrics, tracing, token utilization, performance, and operational health.
• Apply responsible AI, privacy, access control, governance, model-risk, and cost-management practices.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance, training, and support to engineering teams adopting shared AI capabilities.
• Partner with product management, security, architecture, and business teams to define the AI platform roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership throughout the development and delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture design

Mentoring

Hands-on

Agile/Scrum

Problem solving

Tools

GCP

Gemini

Vertex AI

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MCP

Agent frameworks

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Job description

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Principal AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and operations of enterprise AI platforms and developer tools. This hands-on role drives reusable AI capabilities across the organization, guiding engineering teams and ensuring scalable, secure solutions.

You will architect AI services, integrate with cloud and security platforms, and mentor engineers while delivering production-ready implementations using Java/Spring Boot and modern AI tooling.