Senior AI Platform Architect & GenAI Reliability Lead

Quantum Technologies. LLC; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a senior platform engineer to define and scale an enterprise AI platform.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor a 3–8 person team, and partner with product leadership to drive AI platform roadmaps, adoption, reliability, and measurable business outcomes. Hands-on with production code and architecture reviews, you’ll set technical standards and influence build-versus-buy decisions.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure experience with technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience building and operating enterprise AI/GenAI platforms or comparable production ML, data, or developer platforms.
• Deep knowledge of model gateways, RAG, agent platforms, AI evaluation, observability, traceability, and platform governance.
• Experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, cloud services, secrets management, secure SDLC, and production reliability.
• Proven architecture ownership, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder communication, and engineering team development.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise AI platform architecture, including control-plane services, SDKs, reusable templates, and developer tooling.
• Design and implement model gateways supporting multi-provider routing, failover, rate limiting, tenant isolation, and cost tracking.
• Lead platform engineering using Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, cloud services, and reliability engineering.
• Remain hands-on with production code, architecture reviews, technical standards, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Mentor and lead a team of approximately 3–8 platform engineers.
• Partner with product leadership to drive AI platform roadmaps, adoption, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Platform engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability & tracing

Cloud services

Security & compliance

Hands-on coding

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

OpenTelemetry

Cloud platforms

Secrets management

Job description

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a senior platform engineer to define and scale an enterprise AI platform.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor a 3–8 person team, and partner with product leadership to drive AI platform roadmaps, adoption, reliability, and measurable business outcomes. Hands-on with production code and architecture reviews, you’ll set technical standards and influence build-versus-buy decisions.