Senior GenAI Platform Engineer for Secure Gov Cloud

AikiTech, Inc.; Scottsdale, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock compensation

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

AikiTech, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to turn fast-moving GenAI capabilities into production systems trusted by public agencies.

You will own architecture, model strategy, backend services, government-cloud infrastructure, security controls, and agency integrations, working directly with agency staff to translate requirements into secure software. You will design and operate infrastructure across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, implement least-privilege access, encryption, and

Qualifications

• Six+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, owning, and operating production systems or major components.
• Strong Python skills and experience building production backend services, APIs, and data-processing systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs and related capabilities such as retrieval, embeddings, evaluation, structured outputs, or model observability.
• Production experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or another major public-cloud platform, including IAM, networking, containers/serverless, IaC, monitoring, and CI/CD.
• Experience designing for security, reliability, and maintainability beyond prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate LLM-powered applications on government-approved environments with prompt design, model evaluation, retrieval, guardrails, and production observability.
• Evaluate additional commercial or open-weight models where appropriate.
• Design scalable, secure backend services and data pipelines in Python.
• Build versioned evaluation and regression-testing frameworks measuring accuracy, latency, and failure modes.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and produce technical docs for auditors and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

LLM APIs

Production backend

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

AikiTech, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to turn fast-moving GenAI capabilities into production systems trusted by public agencies.

You will own architecture, model strategy, backend services, government-cloud infrastructure, security controls, and agency integrations, working directly with agency staff to translate requirements into secure software. You will design and operate infrastructure across AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, implement least-privilege access, encryption, and