Principal AI Platform Engineer – GenAI Scale

Abbott Laboratories; Lewes (DE); On-site; USD 149,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, engineering, and reliability of the enterprise AI Platform. You will guide a small platform team, design a GenAI control plane, and collaborate with AI Product Managers and security teams to deploy safe, scalable solutions.

You will define templates, tooling, and governance for model, agent, and tool registries, while driving secure SDLC practices and scalable infrastructure across Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of software engineering and technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience designing enterprise AI/GenAI platforms.
• Strong Python and at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Java with APIs and secure SDLC.
• Deep understanding of GenAI runtimes, gateways, and observability.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD and production SLOs.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Proven ability to lead and influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the reference architecture for the AI control plane.
• Design and build a multi-provider model gateway.
• Deliver a GenAI runtime for model serving and retrieval.
• Own the design of registries with versioning, lineage, gates, and auditability.
• Build platform observability and tracing with signals.
• Implement security, guardrails, and responsible-AI controls.
• Establish platform engineering practices including SLOs and on-call.
• Write and review production code and set engineering standards.
• Hire and develop a platform engineering team of 3–8 engineers.
• Partner with Product Manager to sequence platform roadmap and measure adoption.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Python development

Distributed systems

Kubernetes / DevOps

API design

Security & SDLC

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Langfuse

Arize

Job description

Abbott Laboratories is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, engineering, and reliability of the enterprise AI Platform. You will guide a small platform team, design a GenAI control plane, and collaborate with AI Product Managers and security teams to deploy safe, scalable solutions.

You will define templates, tooling, and governance for model, agent, and tool registries, while driving secure SDLC practices and scalable infrastructure across Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD