Senior Platform Engineer & AI Strategy Leader

8th Light, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

L&D access

Learning stipend

Coworking support

Flexible PTO

New parent leave

Job summary

8th Light, Inc. is a distributed US-based technology solutions consultancy that partners with startups to giants. The firm emphasizes mentorship, hands-on work, and learning, with open collaboration and a culture rooted in honesty and trust.

The candidate will lead platform engineering for multiple client engagements, connecting long-term technical vision to what ships, while advising on architecture, security, and observability. Remote-first with hubs across major regions.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building scalable platforms and reusable foundations.
• Experience delivering AI/agentic systems from prototype to production.
• Strong consulting background with complex client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering across client projects and map long-term vision to delivery.
• Advise on architecture, scalability, and platform evolution with business impact.
• Collaborate on ML lifecycle from data ingest to deployment and monitoring.
• Drive innovations and share technical insights with teams and clients.
• Design high-level technical roadmaps for large engagements.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to 8th Light's culture and values.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data engineering

Agentic AI

ML pipelines

DevSecOps

MLOps

Infrastructure as Code

LangChain

Tools

Databricks

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

n8n

CrewAI

Job description

8th Light, Inc. is a distributed US-based technology solutions consultancy that partners with startups to giants. The firm emphasizes mentorship, hands-on work, and learning, with open collaboration and a culture rooted in honesty and trust.

The candidate will lead platform engineering for multiple client engagements, connecting long-term technical vision to what ships, while advising on architecture, security, and observability. Remote-first with hubs across major regions.