Platform Engineer: AI & Self-Service Platform Builder

Robotic Technologies Automation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotic Technologies Automation in Chicago, IL, invites a skilled software engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, and developer-facing platforms. You will create self-service portals and automation to accelerate platform adoption.

You will integrate across services, write secure, tested code, and own the SDLC processes including CI/CD and deployment. You will contribute to AI-enabled workflows and retrieval-augmented solutions grounded in enterprise

Qualifications

• Design, develop, test, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, web applications, and developer-facing platforms.
• Build self-service portals, platform catalogs, reusable components, and automation to 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.

Responsibilities

• Own capabilities throughout the SDLC, including CI/CD, deployment, rollback, documentation, and operational readiness.
• AI Engineering and Intelligent Automation responsibilities, including building AI agents and AI-assisted workflows for architecture analysis and remediation planning.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation solutions grounded in architecture documents, code, and platform knowledge.
• Integrate agents with enterprise APIs and tools via controlled interfaces and MCP where appropriate.

Skills

APIs

Backend development

CI/CD

AI engineering

Code reviews

Security

Job description

Robotic Technologies Automation in Chicago, IL, invites a skilled software engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade APIs, backend services, and developer-facing platforms. You will create self-service portals and automation to accelerate platform adoption.

You will integrate across services, write secure, tested code, and own the SDLC processes including CI/CD and deployment. You will contribute to AI-enabled workflows and retrieval-augmented solutions grounded in enterprise