Senior Platform Engineer - AI Gateways & Scalability

United States Digital Space LLC; Brownsville (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical/Vision/Dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team) to lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems across the company. You will own end-to-end platform initiatives, drive compute expansion, and mentor engineers to accelerate AI-enabled solutions.

The role emphasizes onboarding frontier models, optimizing performance and security, and delivering reliable software and trained models on managed compute resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline and 5+ years of professional experience building production software; OR 7+ years of professional experience building production software in lieu of a degree
• Experience developing and operating production platforms (AI/ML infrastructure, developer platforms, or large-scale backend systems)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems used company-wide
• Own complex platform initiatives end-to-end, including technical strategy, implementation, testing, deployment, and long-term evolution
• Drive onboarding of new frontier models, expansion of compute resources, and optimization of proxy systems for performance, security, logging, and control
• Champion adoption across the company by mentoring engineers, communicating value, building shared products/prompts/skills/infrastructure, and providing hands-on support
• Act as an entrepreneurial force to identify high-value opportunities and deliver solutions that allow users to rapidly convert problems and ideas into tested software, deployed applications, and trained models on managed, reliable compute
• Develop and scale tools that mitigate business risk, such as advanced AI-powered code review, PR automation, and safety guardrails
• Define best practices for lean, effective, and secure applied AI that maximizes conversion of engineering expertise into automation and reliable data systems
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional stakeholders, including ML researchers, security, and operations teams

Skills

Python

Go

Java

TypeScript

Rust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-code

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer (Platform Team) to lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable AI platforms and proxy systems across the company. You will own end-to-end platform initiatives, drive compute expansion, and mentor engineers to accelerate AI-enabled solutions.

The role emphasizes onboarding frontier models, optimizing performance and security, and delivering reliable software and trained models on managed compute resources.