Remote Lead AI Platform Engineer - Secure GRC & Automation

Resilient IT; Springfield (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Medical insurance

Dental and vision

Life insurance

401(k)

Performance-based bonus

Professional development

Advancement opportunities

Job summary

Resilient IT is seeking an experienced, hands-on AI Platform Engineer to lead the internal AI platform, integrate with ResilientGRC, and enhance automation across internal tools. The role blends infrastructure, development, model behavior, and security to deliver reliable, auditable AI services.

The candidate will own the platform, troubleshoot issues, and drive improvements without disrupting existing functionality, while aligning with regulatory and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience operating, administering, enhancing, or developing production AI systems.
• Hands-on experience with locally hosted large language models.
• Experience with Ollama or comparable local model-serving technologies.
• Experience designing, consuming, and securing REST APIs.
• Experience with Linux server administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Experience assuming ownership of an existing technical platform and improving it without disrupting working functionality.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into existing business applications.
• Working knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector databases, document ingestion, and semantic search.
• Experience designing prompts, structured model outputs, tool-calling workflows, or AI agents.
• Ability to diagnose problems across models, applications, APIs, infrastructure, databases, and networks.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, secrets management, logging, encryption, and secure application development.
• Ability to evaluate AI output for accuracy, reliability, security, and operational risk.
• Strong documentation, communication, prioritization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently own complex systems while collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and stabilize the internal AI platform and GRC integration.
• Improve model accuracy, reliability, and usefulness of AI outputs.
• Expand automation across internal systems and workflows.
• Protect sensitive information and ensure security, compliance, and tenant isolation.
• Support users and communicate technical decisions to stakeholders.

Skills

Hosted LLMs

Ollama

Qwen models

REST APIs

Linux

Docker

AI platform ownership

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Embeddings

Vector databases

Document ingestion

Semantic search

Prompts & structured outputs

System monitoring

Tools

Ollama

Qwen

PostgreSQL

FastAPI

React

Job description

Resilient IT is seeking an experienced, hands-on AI Platform Engineer to lead the internal AI platform, integrate with ResilientGRC, and enhance automation across internal tools. The role blends infrastructure, development, model behavior, and security to deliver reliable, auditable AI services.

The candidate will own the platform, troubleshoot issues, and drive improvements without disrupting existing functionality, while aligning with regulatory and security requirements.