Senior AI Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

DDN; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to lead our Harness & Loop Engineering team within the Data Services Engineering organization in Raleigh, NC.

You will define architectures for AI-assisted engineering systems, build AI-powered development environments, and guide production-ready, customer-facing capabilities while mentoring engineers.

This role requires deep expertise in AI systems, large-scale distributed infrastructure, and software quality engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing and delivering AI-assisted software development platforms or developer productivity tooling.
• Demonstrated success using AI within correctness-critical software systems, including directing coding agents, automated quality engineering agents, and validating AI-generated outputs through rigorous evaluation frameworks.
• Deep expertise in machine learning infrastructure, LLM inference serving, and distributed AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, technical direction, and execution of the Harness & Loop Engineering platform.
• Design and build AI-powered development environments, agentic engineering sandboxes, automated quality engineering systems, and inference orchestration platforms.
• Develop engineering platforms that significantly improve developer productivity while maintaining rigorous standards for correctness, reliability, and security.
• Own technical architecture and provide final design and code review authority for AI-generated software changes.
• Define evaluation frameworks, automated testing strategies, validation pipelines, and engineering guardrails that govern AI-assisted software development.
• Partner closely with the Foundation SDK team to co-evolve platform capabilities and integrate emerging technologies into production-ready solutions.
• Lead the evolution of internal engineering platforms into scalable, externally consumable products once validated through internal adoption.
• Oversee internal GPU infrastructure, inference services, and Infinia cluster operations supporting AI development and testing environments.
• Establish engineering best practices for Loop Engineering, agentic development workflows, and AI-assisted software delivery.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the organization, raising technical standards through coaching, architectural guidance, and technical leadership.
• Serve as a key technical interviewer and hiring bar-raiser for engineering talent.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineering, platform engineering, AI research, quality engineering, and product management teams to deliver scalable engineering capabilities.

Skills

AI systems

Distributed systems

Leadership

Developer platforms

LLM inference serving

GPU infrastructure

CI/CD automation

Quality engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GPU clusters

Inference serving frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

DDN is seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to lead our Harness & Loop Engineering team within the Data Services Engineering organization in Raleigh, NC.

You will define architectures for AI-assisted engineering systems, build AI-powered development environments, and guide production-ready, customer-facing capabilities while mentoring engineers.

This role requires deep expertise in AI systems, large-scale distributed infrastructure, and software quality engineering.