Senior AI Platform Engineer: AI Delivery & Architecture

Photon; United States; Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, dental benefits

401k retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Photon seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate Tulip and related AI platform capabilities. You will contribute to architecture, standards, and mentor peers through design discussions and code reviews.

The ideal candidate has deep technical execution experience with AI-enabled systems, cloud platforms, and secure, scalable production services, working across multiple workstreams in a hybrid Tempe environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with increasing responsibility for architecture, platform delivery, or complex enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering production-grade applications, APIs, integrations, and distributed services.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices such as automated testing, code review, and maintainable design.
• Experience with AI-enabled systems, including large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent or workflow orchestration patterns, model integration, evaluation, and responsible AI guardrails.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including containerization and infrastructure as code (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm), CI/CD, observability, and operational support for production services.
• Experience translating business and product objectives into technical designs and executable engineering work.
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to technical design decisions, mentor less experienced engineers, and work effectively across multiple workstreams.
• Experience securing enterprise services and AI integrations, including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, secrets management, and automated security scanning in CI/CD.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical decisions to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Tulip and related AI platform capabilities.
• Drive architecture decisions and contribute to engineering standards.
• Mentor peers through design discussions and code reviews.
• Translate business objectives into technical designs and executable work.
• Collaborate across workstreams to deliver secure, scalable AI solutions.

Skills

AI platform architecture

LLM & RAG workflows

API & data integration

Containers & Kubernetes

Python & cloud-native engineering

Security & AI governance

Mentorship & collaboration

Production readiness & SLOs

Code reviews & testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Photon seeks a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate Tulip and related AI platform capabilities. You will contribute to architecture, standards, and mentor peers through design discussions and code reviews.

The ideal candidate has deep technical execution experience with AI-enabled systems, cloud platforms, and secure, scalable production services, working across multiple workstreams in a hybrid Tempe environment.