Senior AI Platform Engineer - Sustaining & Tooling

Blue Origin; Merritt Island (FL); On-site; USD 198,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support

Job summary

Blue Origin in Merritt Island, FL is seeking a senior AI software engineer to own sustaining engineering for an enterprise AI platform, improving AI-driven workflows across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain. You will manage CI/CD, data integrity, and regression testing while guiding a team and collaborating with leadership.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in AI/ML production software, experience with LLM-based apps, and strong communication skills to articulate complex

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a focus on AI/ML in production.
• Ownership of a production software product through its sustaining lifecycle, including on-call or user-facing support.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the recurring maintenance cadence for an internal AI platform, including dependency and model version management, CI health, and release cuts.
• Build and maintain automated regression coverage for 30+ production AI workflows, establishing test suites.
• Monitor and remediate upstream data and schema drift across 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/outflow rates, and quality trends to senior leadership.
• Innovate by proposing AI-driven solutions to business problems.
• Design, build, and release new AI-assisted workflows from requirements to rollout.
• Perform rigorous performance testing and fine-tuning of AI models for robustness.
• Mentor partner development teams and collaborate with engineers to drive data-driven decisions.
• Provide thought leadership on AI strategy and roadmap planning.

Skills

AI/ML in production

LLM/agentic apps

Python

SQL

Power Query

Git-based workflows

CI/CD

REST/GraphQL APIs

Prompt engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Git-based development workflows

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

CI/CD pipelines

PLM

MES

ERP

Job description

Blue Origin in Merritt Island, FL is seeking a senior AI software engineer to own sustaining engineering for an enterprise AI platform, improving AI-driven workflows across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain. You will manage CI/CD, data integrity, and regression testing while guiding a team and collaborating with leadership.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in AI/ML production software, experience with LLM-based apps, and strong communication skills to articulate complex