Senior Platform Engineer — AI for Planet & Conservation

Ai2; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Commuting stipend

Fitness/wellbeing stipend

Vacation and paid holidays

Annual bonuses

Job summary

Ai2 is seeking a senior software engineer to help build an agent platform for conservation groups and government researchers. You will design core APIs, run the SDK/CLI, craft documentation, and shape the developer experience for a production-ready ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with frontend teams and product management while engaging directly with customers. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and seamless integration into user workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience across web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling.
• Shipping products to external users and owning them in production.
• Opinions about API design; prefer simple designs.
• Willingness to write documentation as part of the work.
• Fluency with modern AI tools in your workflow.
• Continuous learner in rapidly evolving LLM/agent architectures.
• Clear technical communication with engineers and non‑engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the platform APIs every agent depends on, covering registration, auth, secrets, deployment, runtime, events, discovery, and evaluation. Keep them stable, documented, and pleasant to use.
• Build the observability layer that shows developers what their agents are actually doing: logs, conversation history, execution traces, metrics, and failure reporting.
• Make evaluation a first‑class part of the platform, so developers can define and run evals, compare versions, track quality over time, and see regressions early.
• Build and operate the services underneath all of it: identity and authorization, runtime orchestration, deployment, event routing, and the agent registry.
• Build agents yourself and run them in production, including prompt and tool design, quality and cost tuning, and keeping them healthy once real users depend on them.
• Watch for patterns that keep coming up in customer work and turn them into real platform features.
• Own the developer experience end to end: onboarding, quickstarts, SDKs, CLI tooling, example agents, API documentation, and a local development loop that works.

Skills

8+ years exp

Web services

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Cloud tooling

Product ownership

API design

Documentation

AI tools

Continuous learning

Technical communication

Job description

Ai2 is seeking a senior software engineer to help build an agent platform for conservation groups and government researchers. You will design core APIs, run the SDK/CLI, craft documentation, and shape the developer experience for a production-ready ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with frontend teams and product management while engaging directly with customers. This role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and seamless integration into user workflows.