Senior AI Platform Engineer - Remote & Edge Fleet Growth

Colorado State University; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado State University seeks an accomplished software engineer to design, build, and operate a national-scale AI testbed infrastructure. You will lead the development of software for edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines, while mentoring junior engineers and aligning with researchers and external partners.

You will set technical direction, deploy monitoring and security tooling, and collaborate across teams to ensure reliable operation of a growing fleet of AI-enabled nodes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
• Five years of direct experience supporting code, services, and deployments in production.
• Fluent in Linux, including scripting, user management, networking, package management, SSH, and debugging.
• Fluent in software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software for operating and scaling a distributed network of AI-enabled edge computing nodes, growing from 150 to 500 devices; build substantial custom tooling and infrastructure; ensure distributed fleet, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines operations.
• Participate in planning and setting technical direction; provide mentoring to students and junior engineers; develop software deployment technologies across systems at scale; partner with distributed team to inform monitoring, infrastructure, and cybersecurity decisions.
• Work with key collaborators to meet nodes and data expectations; set up and manage support ticket systems to address platform and device issues; and create and maintain code and system documentation, maintenance, and certificate renewals.

Skills

Edge computing

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Monitoring tooling

Cybersecurity

Python

Linux scripting

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

InfluxDB

RabbitMQ

Redis

Ansible

VPS/Dedicated Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

InfluxDB

RabbitMQ

Redis

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

Colorado State University seeks an accomplished software engineer to design, build, and operate a national-scale AI testbed infrastructure. You will lead the development of software for edge devices, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines, while mentoring junior engineers and aligning with researchers and external partners.

You will set technical direction, deploy monitoring and security tooling, and collaborate across teams to ensure reliable operation of a growing fleet of AI-enabled nodes