Platform Infrastructure Engineer | AI Data Pipelines

Reinforced Learning; Town of Tonawanda (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Reinforced Learning is seeking a Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure to design and build the core infrastructure powering data generation, evaluation, and agentic systems. You will own shared platforms enabling engineers and researchers to run large-scale, human-in-the-loop workflows and automated data pipelines for frontier AI models.

You will collaborate with the founding team to define system architecture, establish engineering best practices, and build scalable, observable

Qualifications

• Experience building production distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript.
• Experience designing and operating cloud environments (AWS or GCP).
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub).
• Experience with high-throughput data pipelines and asynchronous processing.
• Strong understanding of system scalability, performance, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop the shared infrastructure powering data generation platforms, HL systems, and evaluation pipelines.
• Build systems capable of processing large-scale datasets and high-throughput workloads with strong reliability guarantees.
• Create reusable infrastructure and APIs for product engineers and researchers to build on core systems.
• Design systems with observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance for production workloads at scale.
• Help define long-term system architecture across data pipelines, compute infrastructure, task orchestration, and storage systems.
• Work closely with engineers and researchers to support new AI experimentation workflows and platform capabilities.
• Define standards for system design, deployment, reliability, and infrastructure operations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Node.js / JavaScript

Cloud: AWS/GCP

Data pipelines

Observability & monitoring

Production ownership

High-throughput workloads

Job description

Reinforced Learning is seeking a Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure to design and build the core infrastructure powering data generation, evaluation, and agentic systems. You will own shared platforms enabling engineers and researchers to run large-scale, human-in-the-loop workflows and automated data pipelines for frontier AI models.

You will collaborate with the founding team to define system architecture, establish engineering best practices, and build scalable, observable