Senior AI Platform Engineer – Sustaining & Innovation

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Parental Leave

Disability Insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer to own the sustaining engineering and development of an internal AI assistant used across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain. You will train, rollout, and document new capabilities, while ensuring accuracy, safety, and scale of AI workflows.

The role requires leadership, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a significant focus on AI and machine learning in production.
• Demonstrated ownership of a production software product through its full sustaining lifecycle, including on-call or user-facing support responsibility.
• Experience building and operating LLM-based or agentic applications in production, including prompt and context engineering, tool/function calling, retrieval over enterprise data, and evaluation of non-deterministic output.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML models, algorithms, and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar.
• Proficient with SQL, Python, and Power Query. Familiarity with VBA is a plus.
• Experience with Git-based development workflows, code review, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience integrating with enterprise engineering and business systems via REST or GraphQL APIs, such as PLM, MES, ERP, requirements management, or ITSM platforms.
• Prior experience analyzing large sets of data and tracking hardware throughout all stages of a part's lifecycle is a plus.
• Experience with integrating AI solutions into large-scale software systems and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own the sustaining engineering, feedback triage, and new capability development for an internal AI platform.
• Build and maintain automated regression coverage for a library of 30+ production AI workflows, establishing test suites.
• Monitor and remediate upstream data and schema drift across integrated enterprise systems.
• Implement and enforce machine-checkable guardrails for accuracy, safety, and data-handling rules.
• Own triage, disposition, and closure of a high-volume user feedback queue.
• Report on backlog health, inflow and outflow rates, and quality trends to senior leadership.

Skills

AI/ML production

Python

SQL

Git workflows

REST APIs

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/SE or related field

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Power Query

VBA

REST

GraphQL

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced AI Platform Engineer to own the sustaining engineering and development of an internal AI assistant used across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain. You will train, rollout, and document new capabilities, while ensuring accuracy, safety, and scale of AI workflows.

The role requires leadership, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.