Senior AI Platform Engineer for Regulated DevTools

Velsera; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

Velsera, headquartered in Boston, MA, is building an AI-powered internal platform to accelerate software delivery while ensuring HIPAA/GxP compliance and FedRAMP-boundary safety. You will work across CI/CD, code quality, and observability to deliver scalable, secure tooling for engineering teams.

Collaborating with engineering, security, and product leaders, you will design guardrails, implement AI quality gates, integrate with GitHub/Jenkins/GitLab CI, and drive adoption through templates,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, platform engineering, DevEx, or SRE/operations with hands-on AI experience.
• Experience building AI-assisted developer tooling (code review, test generation, automation).
• Experience building automated agent workflows and observability capabilities on existing monitoring stacks.
• Comfort operating in regulated environments with guardrails (HIPAA, GxP, FedRAMP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD toolchains and developer tooling integrations.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate an internal AI platform for developer workflows, including code assistance and test generation.
• Integrate AI capabilities into CI/CD toolchains and make adoption easy via templates and self-service patterns.
• Implement AI quality gates and secure-by-default configurations to prevent non-compliant changes from merging.
• Design for regulated environments with logging, access controls, and data-handling guardrails.
• Partner with engineering leads and security/compliance to define and roll out internal standards for responsible AI use.
• Build AI-assisted operations on top of observability signals (anomaly detection, runbook automation).
• Measure impact (throughput, MTTR, reliability) and communicate progress to engineering leadership.

Skills

Python

Java

TypeScript

LLM/AI

Tools

GitHub CI

Jenkins

GitLab CI

SonarQube

CodeBuild

CloudWatch

Job description

Velsera, headquartered in Boston, MA, is building an AI-powered internal platform to accelerate software delivery while ensuring HIPAA/GxP compliance and FedRAMP-boundary safety. You will work across CI/CD, code quality, and observability to deliver scalable, secure tooling for engineering teams.

Collaborating with engineering, security, and product leaders, you will design guardrails, implement AI quality gates, integrate with GitHub/Jenkins/GitLab CI, and drive adoption through templates,