GenAI Platform Engineering Lead

Zs Associates; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total rewards package

Job summary

ZS Associates seeks an AI Engineering Manager to own end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale GenAI-enabled platforms. Lead multi-tier systems, drive engineering standards, and mentor engineers across API, data, and AI layers.

Partner with Product, AI/ML, DevOps, and Consulting teams to deliver scalable solutions. You will balance short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution, ensuring production-readiness and reliability while fostering an engineering culture of

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering experience with strong foundations in CS, data structures, algorithms, and system design.
• Engineering management or technical leadership experience with proven ability to lead teams while remaining technically credible and hands-on.
• Experience building and scaling large-scale, distributed, multi-tier applications across backend, services, data, and AI layers.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with Python preferred, and familiarity with FastAPI, Flask, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, API design, service-oriented architecture, data modeling, and storage systems.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade GenAI or LLM systems, including prompt pipelines, model integrations, and agentic or workflow-based AI systems.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution, reuse, standardization, and maintainability.
• Fluency in English, client-first mentality, collaborative spirit, strong problem-solving approach, and ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.
• Ability to build engineering culture through coaching, hiring, structured development, and clear expectations for technical excellence.
• Experience supporting complex platform or AI solution discussions with internal stakeholders and/or clients is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and system design for large-scale, distributed AI platforms spanning frontend, APIs, services, data, and AI layers.
• Define engineering standards, design patterns, and platform architecture decisions.
• Architect and build GenAI-enabled systems using LLMs, prompt pipelines, and model integrations.
• Guide engineers through design and code reviews, technical debt resolution, and scalable implementation practices.
• Own delivery across high-impact workstreams with planning, prioritization and risk management.
• Ensure systems are observable, reliable, and production-ready with cloud-native CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with Product, AI/ML, Data Eng, DevOps, and Consulting to translate business needs into scalable tech solutions.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Flask

Distributed systems

LLM integrations

GenAI

APIs

Software architecture

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Tools

LLM platforms

CI/CD

Cloud-native

Job description

ZS Associates seeks an AI Engineering Manager to own end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of large-scale GenAI-enabled platforms. Lead multi-tier systems, drive engineering standards, and mentor engineers across API, data, and AI layers.

Partner with Product, AI/ML, DevOps, and Consulting teams to deliver scalable solutions. You will balance short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution, ensuring production-readiness and reliability while fostering an engineering culture of