Senior AI Platform Engineer

Kiewit; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiewit seeks an AI Engineer 3 to design, develop, and operate an enterprise AI platform powering intelligent applications across the organization. You will build scalable backend services, reusable AI capabilities, and platform APIs for integration by application teams.

The role requires experience with MCP, RAG, and AI workflows, plus cloud-native production systems. You'll mentor engineers and collaborate with architects and product managers to ensure secure, compliant delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years building production AI services, AI platforms, or reusable AI infrastructure.
• Experience building scalable backend APIs and distributed services.
• Experience with LLM integrations, MCP, AI workflows, and RAG.
• Experience with Docker and cloud-native container platforms.
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications.
• Strong SQL and relational database design skills.
• Experience mentoring engineers and delivering complex production software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy reusable AI platform services and backend APIs.
• Build scalable backend services that orchestrate enterprise AI capabilities.
• Develop integrations with Azure AI Foundry, Anthropic Claude SDK, Azure OpenAI, and other approved providers.
• Design and optimize RAG services and agent-based workflows.
• Integrate AI platform services with enterprise data platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement observability, monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting for AI services.
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with architects and application teams on solution implementation.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and governance standards.

Skills

Software engineering 5+ yrs

Production AI services

Backend APIs

LLM integrations

Docker & cloud

SQL & relational DB

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Azure AI Foundry

Anthropic Claude SDK

Azure OpenAI

LangFuse

Prisma

Drizzle

Express

Fastify

React

Docker

Job description

Kiewit seeks an AI Engineer 3 to design, develop, and operate an enterprise AI platform powering intelligent applications across the organization. You will build scalable backend services, reusable AI capabilities, and platform APIs for integration by application teams.

The role requires experience with MCP, RAG, and AI workflows, plus cloud-native production systems. You'll mentor engineers and collaborate with architects and product managers to ensure secure, compliant delivery.