Lead AI Agent Platform Engineer

Vero; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus

Benefits

US-focused opportunity (Boston/NYC/DC)

Job summary

Vero is seeking a Principal AI Agent Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering production AI agents across the engineering org. The role focuses on runtimes, SDKs, developer tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure enabling teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications.

You will shape platform architecture, reliability, security, and developer experience while staying hands-on with production code.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and operating platforms adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• Deep experience with cloud-native distributed systems, data infrastructure, and service architecture.
• Strong hands-on infrastructure experience across cloud environments, IaC, and production systems.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust.
• Experience building developer tooling, SDKs, internal platforms, or developer productivity solutions.
• Strong architectural judgment, technical leadership, and end-to-end ownership.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes is advantageous.
• Production experience with LLMs, AI agents, evaluation frameworks, or AI infrastructure is highly desirable but not essential

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the core AI agent platform, including runtimes, SDKs, templates, and developer workflows.
• Build and scale cloud‑native infrastructure, working closely with SRE on IaC, security, networking, and production reliability.
• Develop evaluation frameworks, guardrails, observability, and resilience patterns for production LLM and agent systems.
• Set technical standards across platform architecture, engineering practices, and AI development.
• Partner with engineering teams to build and deploy AI agents, turning complex use cases into reusable platform capabilities.
• Own production reliability through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and operational improvements

Skills

Platform ownership

Cloud-native distributed systems

Software engineering

End-to-end ownership

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Vero is seeking a Principal AI Agent Platform Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering production AI agents across the engineering org. The role focuses on runtimes, SDKs, developer tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure enabling teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications.

You will shape platform architecture, reliability, security, and developer experience while staying hands-on with production code.