Lead AI Platform Architect — Cloud, Agents & Security

Baptist Health; Coral Gables (FL); On-site; USD 126,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth and development

Comprehensive health and wellness

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness program to reduce deductible

Job summary

Baptist Health in Coral Gables, FL, is seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to set the technical bar for AI-native software across cloud platforms. This hands-on role combines architecture, security, and leadership to deliver agentic AI capabilities, tool integration, and scalable systems on Google Cloud.

The ideal candidate will drive spec-driven development, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture, security, and product stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent is required.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping production systems.
• Deep, hands-on Google Cloud (GCP) expertise — compute, networking, IAM, data, and the AI/ML stack.
• Domain depth in Gemini and Vertex AI — grounding/RAG, tool calling, and agent development.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AI coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, or equivalent.
• Proven system-architecture ability — security, high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and cost-efficiency.
• Hands-on Agent Gateway / MCP gateway experience — governance, routing, auth, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI-native systems on Google Cloud with security and reliability as core goals.
• Drive spec-driven development, translating intent into executable specifications.
• Build with agentic AI, enabling multi-agent orchestration and tool use.
• Move fast on research and POCs, running structured experiments and gathering evidence.
• Engineer the model layer with Gemini and Vertex AI, including prompt and context engineering.
• Make security-by-design a priority, including identity management and data protection.
• Own quality and observability with evaluation harnesses, regression suites, and AI observability.
• Lead technically within the AI foundation team, mentoring engineers and setting standards.

Skills

AI-native design

Google Cloud (GCP)

Security

Observability

Leadership

Communication

CI/CD

Agent/Gateway experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Antigravity

Vertex AI

Gemini

Apigee X

Terraform

GitHub CI/CD

MCP gateway / Model Context Protocol

Job description

Baptist Health in Coral Gables, FL, is seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to set the technical bar for AI-native software across cloud platforms. This hands-on role combines architecture, security, and leadership to deliver agentic AI capabilities, tool integration, and scalable systems on Google Cloud.

The ideal candidate will drive spec-driven development, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture, security, and product stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes.