Senior AI Platform Lead - Enterprise, Hybrid in Boston

Executive Office of Technology Services and Security; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) seeks an AI Technical Lead to drive secure, scalable AI platforms across the Commonwealth. You will establish engineering standards, pipelines, and cloud architecture to move AI from PoC to enterprise production, partnering with product, security, data, and enterprise teams.

Based primarily at 1 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 with a hybrid schedule (in-office and remote work as needed), the role requires deep software engineering

Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of progressively responsible software, systems, or platform engineering experience, including work on complex technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience deploying AI and machine learning systems in production environments.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, and operational engineering practices.
• Experience supporting technology modernization initiatives, particularly integration with legacy enterprise systems, a plus.
• Ability to translate product strategies and policy goals into scalable technical architectures and implementation plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams, providing technical guidance, and contributing to technical standards and best practices.
• Comfort operating within security, privacy, accessibility, compliance, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery for enterprise AI platforms and products, establishing engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Lead solution engineering for the Commonwealth AI Assistant, ChatGPT.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud-native AI infrastructure, deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, DevSecOps practices, and MLOps capabilities.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns, APIs, and shared services that enable agencies to adopt AI efficiently and consistently.
• Partner with the AI Product Management Lead to evaluate technical feasibility, estimate effort, and translate product roadmaps into scalable technical solutions.
• Advise agency engineering teams on architecture, implementation planning, and operational readiness while enabling agencies to own long-term solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize legacy technology through AI-enabled capabilities and shared platforms.
• Ensure reliability, observability, security, performance, and lifecycle management for AI applications transitioning into production.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data, digital services, procurement, vendors, and agency technology leaders.

Skills

AI/ML deployment

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) seeks an AI Technical Lead to drive secure, scalable AI platforms across the Commonwealth. You will establish engineering standards, pipelines, and cloud architecture to move AI from PoC to enterprise production, partnering with product, security, data, and enterprise teams.

Based primarily at 1 Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 with a hybrid schedule (in-office and remote work as needed), the role requires deep software engineering