Senior AI Platform Architect & Production Lead

Blattner Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employer paid HDHP insurance premiums

401(k) with company match

HSA and FSA options

Dental and Vision insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Work/Life balance

Employee/Family focused culture

Gym on site

Job summary

Blattner Company is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the end-to-end technical architecture and delivery of Blattner's core AI platform, starting with the Construction Ops Platform. You will write production code, set design standards, and ensure adoption and cost effectiveness.

In collaboration with a Senior AI Product Manager, you will guide AI Engineers, Data Engineers, and Full Stack Developers, delivering scalable, secure AI solutions across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning or AI Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture and delivery of a core software platform, from prototype through production and long-term enhancement.
• Build production LLM and agentic applications: retrieval over project and construction data, agent and tool orchestration, evaluation harnesses, context engineering, and human-in-the-loop review paths.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems of record (Procore, Salesforce, Bluebeam, ERP and finance systems) and with Blattner's Microsoft Fabric data foundation.
• Establish engineering standards across the AI team: repository structure, testing and model evaluation, release process, observability, consumption and cost monitoring, and security review.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Production LLM apps

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Azure AI Foundry

Job description

Blattner Company is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the end-to-end technical architecture and delivery of Blattner's core AI platform, starting with the Construction Ops Platform. You will write production code, set design standards, and ensure adoption and cost effectiveness.

In collaboration with a Senior AI Product Manager, you will guide AI Engineers, Data Engineers, and Full Stack Developers, delivering scalable, secure AI solutions across enterprise systems.