Platform Engineer

Charles Schwab; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Sabbatical after 5 years

Tuition reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Charles Schwab's Schwab Technology Services in Ann Arbor seeks an Infrastructure & Innovation Lab Engineer to drive hands-on infrastructure engineering for an R&D incubation team focused on Generative AI, digital assets, and emerging technologies. You will support GPU-enabled compute, cloud platforms, automation, and vendor solutions.

The engineer applies enterprise patterns and guardrails, documents configurations and runbooks, and partners with platform owners to transition successful

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering.
• GCP experience and enterprise cloud patterns.
• Automation, scripting, IaC, and CI/CD proficiency.
• Hands-on Linux, GPU compute, containers, and developer tooling.
• Strong cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Support GenAI infrastructure experiments and demos.
• Maintain GPU workstations and compute environments.
• Apply IaC and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with security, risk, and architecture teams.
• Manage vendor environments and lab platforms.
• Document configurations and runbooks.
• Transition successful experiments to production owners.

Skills

Cloud & DevOps

Linux systems

GPU compute

IaC Terraform

CI/CD automation

Cross-functional

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Job description

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

The Schwab Technology Services (STS) Research & Development team explores emerging technologies and turns them into practical capabilities that create measurable value across Schwab. We operate at the intersection of innovation and execution, rapidly testing ideas, partnering across the enterprise, and scaling what works.

The Infrastructure & Innovation Lab Engineer provides hands‑on infrastructure engineering and operational support for an R&D incubation team focused on Generative AI, digital assets, and other emerging technologies. This role supports experimentation, demonstrations, and production-bound initiatives across GPU-enabled compute, cloud platforms, vendor solutions, automation, and specialized proof‑of‑concept environments.

The engineer applies established enterprise patterns and guardrails, partners with platform owners when an incubation need is not yet covered, and converts validated approaches into documented, repeatable patterns that can be reviewed, adopted, and supported by the appropriate enterprise teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Support digital asset infrastructure: Configure and support custody, wallets, tokenization, blockchain connectivity, signing, nodes, and vendor platforms.
• Partner with security, risk, legal, architecture, and engineering teams on controls, integration needs, dependencies, and enterprise adoption.
• Enable GenAI experimentation: Support model access, prompt and workflow tooling, RAG, agent orchestration, evaluation, safety testing, and observability.
• Operate innovation lab environments: Maintain GPU workstations, GPU-enabled servers, operating systems, drivers, runtimes, firmware, patching, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Create repeatable configurations for experiments and demonstrations.
• Partner on cloud and platform needs: Use approved cloud patterns, reference architectures, controls, and services for incubation environments.
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, GitOps, containers, and automation to improve repeatability and supportability.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering and architecture on new or extended patterns, documentation, review, and handoff.
• Manage technology vendors: Administer vendor environments, coordinate vendor relationships for lab, GenAI, digital assets, and emerging technology products.
• Support secure paths to adoption: Embed security, risk, data, and operational requirements early in lab and incubation work.
• Build proofs‑of‑concept and demonstrations that validate infrastructure approaches and production‑readiness considerations.
• Document configurations, dependencies, runbooks, decisions, and transition requirements.
• Work with enterprise teams to transition successful experiments to production owners.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, platform, cloud, DevOps, site reliability, or a related engineering role.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and experience applying established enterprise cloud patterns.
• Strong experience with automation, scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, source control, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience evaluating and managing technology vendors, including technical assessments, contracts, licensing, service coordination, and ongoing performance.
• Hands‑on experience administering Linux systems, GPU compute environments, containers, and developer tooling.
• Ability to diagnose issues across hardware, operating systems, drivers, containers, cloud services, vendor platforms, and application dependencies.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation and cross‑functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with digital asset infrastructure or vendor platforms, such as custody, wallets, blockchain connectivity, signing, or node services.
• Experience with additional cloud providers, such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience configuring and operating EVM‑based blockchain nodes, such as Ethereum, Besu, or ZKsync.
• Experience supporting GenAI or machine learning tools, model development environments, agentic harnesses, evaluation frameworks, or AI observability solutions.
• Familiarity with GPU drivers and runtimes.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, secrets management, and policy‑as‑code.
• Experience in a regulated or security‑conscious enterprise environment.
• Experience working in research, incubation, or another emerging technology setting.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance