Senior AI Platform Engineer (Remote)

Stellent IT LLC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellent IT LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead development of AI platforms, developer tools, and agentic capabilities. The role requires delivering end-to-end technical work, collaborating with engineers and leaders, and establishing reusable patterns for custom agents and MCP services.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AI/LLM integration, cloud-based services, secure APIs, and scalable architectures, with a track record of delivering production-grade solutions.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, AI engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality software solutions in production environments.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI, LLM, developer-platform, or automation capabilities.
• Experience with cloud-based AI services platform such as GCP, Gemini, and Vertex AI or comparable model platforms.
• Solid understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, APIs, and software design principles.
• Experience developing Java REST APIs and services with Spring Boot and working knowledge of React.js or comparable front-end technologies.
• Experience with secure API integrations and OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect authorization patterns, including service accounts, client credentials, or delegated user access.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, privacy, and responsible AI practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, technical communication, and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AI platforms, tools, and frameworks used by engineers across the company.
• Implement AI platform services, orchestration patterns, reference implementations, and shared integration components.
• Design and deliver tools that support development of custom agents and workflows.
• Integrate and operationalize AI tools and services with cloud, security, development, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Build secure, scalable, reliable, observable, performant, and maintainable services for custom agents and AI tool integrations.
• Provide technical support and guidance to development teams building, deploying, and operating custom agents and MCP servers.
• Contribute to framework lifecycle practices, including versioning, release management, documentation, adoption, support, and continuous improvement.
• Implement logging, metrics, token-utilization monitoring, tracing, and other operational capabilities for AI services running on GCP.
• Apply enterprise security, privacy, responsible AI, access-control, governance, cost-management, and model-risk practices to AI solutions.
• Collaborate with development teams, security, and architecture to define requirements and deliver platform capabilities.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, troubleshooting, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team as well as engineers on our development teams contributing to a culture of continuous improvement.

Skills

AI engineering

Cloud platforms

Java REST APIs

Security & privacy

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MCP servers

Spring Boot

React.js

Job description

Stellent IT LLC is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to lead development of AI platforms, developer tools, and agentic capabilities. The role requires delivering end-to-end technical work, collaborating with engineers and leaders, and establishing reusable patterns for custom agents and MCP services.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with AI/LLM integration, cloud-based services, secure APIs, and scalable architectures, with a track record of delivering production-grade solutions.