Senior AI Platform Engineer: Harness & Loop

DataDirect Networks; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation plans

Paid holidays

Bonus programs

Tuition reimbursement

Referral program

Medical dental vision benefits

Paid leave

Awards and recognition

Job summary

DataDirect Networks is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead our Harness & Loop Engineering team within the Data Services Engineering organization. You will build AI-powered development environments, inference infrastructure, and automated quality systems that dramatically boost engineering productivity across the company.

As the technical leader, you will define architecture for AI-assisted engineering, oversee inference orchestration, guide Loop Engineering practices, and partner with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Proven experience designing and delivering AI-assisted software development platforms or developer productivity tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, technical direction, and execution of the Harness & Loop Engineering platform.
• Design and build AI-powered development environments, agentic engineering sandboxes, automated quality engineering systems, and inference orchestration platforms.
• Develop engineering platforms that significantly improve developer productivity while maintaining rigorous standards for correctness, reliability, and security.
• Own technical architecture and provide final design and code review authority for AI-generated software changes.
• Define evaluation frameworks, automated testing strategies, validation pipelines, and engineering guardrails that govern AI-assisted software development.
• Partner with the Foundation SDK team to co-evolve platform capabilities and integrate emerging technologies into production-ready solutions.
• Lead the evolution of internal engineering platforms into scalable, externally consumable products once validated through internal adoption.
• Oversee internal GPU infrastructure, inference services, and Infinia cluster operations supporting AI development and testing environments.
• Establish engineering best practices for Loop Engineering, agentic development workflows, and AI-assisted software delivery.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives; participate in hiring for engineering talent.

Skills

12+ years software engineering with

AI-assisted software platforms

AI in correctness-critical systems

Machine learning infrastructure

Large-scale distributed AI systems

Developer platforms & tooling

Agentic systems & inference orches

GPU clusters & AI compute infra

CI/CD & automated testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related discipline

Master's degree preferred

Job description

DataDirect Networks is seeking a Senior Engineer to lead our Harness & Loop Engineering team within the Data Services Engineering organization. You will build AI-powered development environments, inference infrastructure, and automated quality systems that dramatically boost engineering productivity across the company.

As the technical leader, you will define architecture for AI-assisted engineering, oversee inference orchestration, guide Loop Engineering practices, and partner with