Platform Engineer for AI Agents & Internal Dev Tools

Skill; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 141,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefit contributions

Retirement plans with match

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Skill is seeking a developer to build and extend a shared internal development platform integrating state-of-the-art AI agent technology. You will architect scalable systems, enable agent-based workflows, and champion extensibility across the platform.

You will drive secure, observable, and cost-aware AI automation, partnering with engineering teams to improve productivity while maintaining strong security and governance practices. This is a temporary placement in a cutting-edge tech environment.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of professional experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Python for production-grade serverless functions and event-driven services.
• Solid experience with cloud services including serverless compute, API management, messaging, IAM, secrets management, and monitoring.
• Experience with AI agent services, knowledge bases, and guardrails.
• Experience integrating with large language model APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and best practices.
• Strong security mindset including least-privilege access and input validation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement agent orchestration systems, including router functions and queueing mechanisms.
• Integrate AI agent capabilities into CI/CD platforms, designing stages where agent invocations occur.
• Develop and expand a suite of shared, tool-based functions for AI agents.
• Design and implement knowledge bases enabling agents to reason over shared organizational context.
• Implement robust AI guardrails, including data scrubbing and per-agent permissions.
• Develop resource management controls for model routing, caching, and context windows.
• Instrument observability with dashboards, audits, and tracing for agent invocations.

Skills

Python

Cloud services

AI agent services

CI/CD

Security mindset

Observability

Tools

Python SDK

Serverless platforms

Vector databases

LLM APIs

Job description

Skill is seeking a developer to build and extend a shared internal development platform integrating state-of-the-art AI agent technology. You will architect scalable systems, enable agent-based workflows, and champion extensibility across the platform.

You will drive secure, observable, and cost-aware AI automation, partnering with engineering teams to improve productivity while maintaining strong security and governance practices. This is a temporary placement in a cutting-edge tech environment.