Remote Senior AI Platform Architect & Orchestration Lead

Petal; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group insurance

Wellness allowance

Telehealth access

Paid vacation

Flexible hours

Hybrid work allowance

Job summary

Petal seeks a Senior AI Platform Developer to lead the design and operation of production-grade AI platform capabilities used by product engineers to build, deploy, evaluate, and govern AI agents.

You will drive end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives, build services for orchestration, runtime, tool integration, and governance, and mentor other developers while shaping secure, observable systems for scale.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years building/operating production SaaS products.
• Strong backend/platform/AI infrastructure background.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs for internal teams.
• Hands-on with modern AI/LLM infrastructure (agent orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, evaluation pipelines).
• Knowledge of secure, observable, testable, scalable production systems.
• Proven ability to mentor developers and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end ownership of complex AI platform initiatives from design through production operation.
• Build and operate platform services for agent orchestration, runtime execution, tool integration, lifecycle management, evaluation, observability, and governance.
• Create shared components such as agent catalogs, workflow builders, Agent IAM, evaluation frameworks, prompt/configuration management, guardrails, and observability tooling.
• Develop reusable APIs, SDKs, templates, reference implementations, and documentation for AI agent development.
• Make architecture decisions balancing speed, safety, scalability, maintainability, governance, and cost.
• Define standards for deployment, monitoring, evaluation, access control, cost management, and responsible AI practices.
• Partner with application, security, data, and product teams while mentoring developers and raising the technical bar.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

AI infrastructure

APIs & SDKs

Security & governance

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Azure AI services

LangGraph

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Angular

Semantic search

Vector search

RBAC

Secrets management

Job description

Petal seeks a Senior AI Platform Developer to lead the design and operation of production-grade AI platform capabilities used by product engineers to build, deploy, evaluate, and govern AI agents.

You will drive end-to-end ownership of platform initiatives, build services for orchestration, runtime, tool integration, and governance, and mentor other developers while shaping secure, observable systems for scale.