Hybrid AI Platform Lead | Enterprise AI & Cloud

Mass; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is recruiting an AI Technical Lead to guide enterprise AI platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and production-ready deployments. The role collaborates with Product Management, agency teams, security, data, and enterprise architecture to modernize technology and accelerate responsible AI adoption.

The position is based at 1 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA with a hybrid work model and in-office as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/systems/platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI and ML systems in production.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, and operational engineering practices.
• Experience supporting technology modernization initiatives, particularly integration with legacy enterprise systems.
• Ability to translate product strategies and policy goals into scalable technical architectures and implementation plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams, providing technical guidance, and contributing to technical standards and best practices.
• Comfort operating within security, privacy, accessibility, compliance, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery for enterprise AI platforms and products, establishing engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Lead solution engineering for the Commonwealth AI Assistant, ChatGPT.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud-native AI infrastructure, deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, DevSecOps practices, and MLOps capabilities.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns, APIs, and shared services that enable agencies to adopt AI efficiently and consistently.
• Partner with the AI Product Management Lead to evaluate technical feasibility, estimate effort, and translate product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions.
• Advise agency engineering teams on architecture, implementation planning, and operational readiness while enabling agencies to own long‑term solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize legacy technology through AI-enabled capabilities and shared platforms.
• Ensure reliability, observability, security, performance, and lifecycle management for AI applications transitioning into production.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, digital services, procurement, vendors, and agency technology leaders.

Skills

AI deployment

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Infra automation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Master’s degree substitutions

Job description

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is recruiting an AI Technical Lead to guide enterprise AI platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and production-ready deployments. The role collaborates with Product Management, agency teams, security, data, and enterprise architecture to modernize technology and accelerate responsible AI adoption.

The position is based at 1 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA with a hybrid work model and in-office as needed.