Platform Engineer

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking an experienced engineer to design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, web applications, and developer-facing platforms in Chicago.

You will build self-service portals, automation, and integrated solutions across enterprise tools to accelerate platform adoption. You will own capabilities across the SDLC, including CI/CD, deployment, documentation, and operational readiness, while building AI agents and retrieval-augmented

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, web applications, and developer-facing platforms.
• Build self-service portals, infrastructure platform catalogs, reusable components, and automation that simplify adoption of approved platform capabilities.
• Develop integrations across application services, databases, messaging platforms, API gateways, and enterprise engineering tools.
• Write maintainable, secure, well-tested code and participate in code reviews, design discussions, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Own capabilities throughout the SDLC, including CI/CD, deployment, rollback, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Build AI agents and AI-assisted workflows for architecture analysis, engineering knowledge discovery, evidence collection, standards validation, and remediation planning.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation solutions that ground responses in authorized architecture documents, code, configuration, and platform knowledge.
• Integrate agents with enterprise APIs and tools through controlled interfaces, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) where appropriate.
• Implement evaluation frameworks for accuracy, grounded ness, safety, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Engineer production controls for AI systems, including access restrictions, bounded execution, auditability, human approval, and safe fallback behavior.
• Automate architecture-review feedback and remediation tracking within developer workflows.

Job description

• Design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, web applications, and developer-facing platforms . Build self-service portals, infrastructure platform catalogs, reusable components, and automation that simplify adoption of approved platform capabilities.
• Develop integrations across application services, databases, messaging platforms , API gateways, and enterprise engineering tools.
• Write maintainable, secure, well-tested code and participate in code reviews, design discussions, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Own capabilities throughout the SDLC, including CI/CD, deployment, rollback, documentation, and operational readiness. AI Engineering and Intelligent Automation
• Build AI agents and AI-assisted workflows for architecture analysis, engineering knowledge discovery, evidence collection, standards validation, and remediation planning.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation solutions that ground responses in authorized architecture documents, code, configuration, and platform knowledge.
• Integrate agents with enterprise APIs and tools through controlled interfaces, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) where appropriate.
• Implement evaluation frameworks for accuracy, grounded ness, safety, consistency, latency, and cost.
• Engineer production controls for AI systems, including access restrictions, bounded execution, auditability, human approval, and safe fallback behavior.
• Automate architecture-review feedback and remediation tracking within developer workflows.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.