Staff AI Platform Engineer - End-to-End Customer Impact

Altana; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Learning & development support

Health benefits (global)

Paid time off

Equity program

Parental leave

Job summary

Altana is building an AI-native platform with a focus on delivering products customers actually adopt. As Staff Engineer, you will lead engineers embedded with product and design, engaging with customers, formulating hypotheses, and turning them into shipped, adopted solutions.

You will own the end-to-end technical architecture, telemetry, and instrumentation, ensuring designs and code deliver measurable customer value.

Qualifications

• Self-starter with demonstrated experience working on large, complex problems.
• Experience deploying production code and services to cloud-hosted environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading other engineers on complex projects.
• Care about engineering excellence, clean code, and knowledge-sharing.
• Experience delivering incremental releases from proof-of-concept to MVP to production.
• Experience with Python Machine Learning toolsets (Numpy, Pandas, Dedupe).
• Experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team turning hypotheses into shipped, adopted products.
• Embed with product and design, interact with users, and translate learnings into product bets.
• Measure work in customer outcomes, not commits.
• Spend time with customers in their workflows to observe pain points.
• Drive technical decision-making with a bias toward shipping and iterative design.
• Set the technical bar for the team with high standards for quality and traceability.

Skills

Python

PySpark

LLMs

Agents

Retrieval

ML tooling

Docker

Git

Kubernetes

Swagger/OpenAPI

AWS/Azure

MLFlow

Celery

Databricks

Delta Lakes

Tools

Docker

Git

Kubernetes

Swagger/OpenAPI

AWS

Azure

MLFlow

Celery

Databricks

Delta Lakes

Job description

Altana is building an AI-native platform with a focus on delivering products customers actually adopt. As Staff Engineer, you will lead engineers embedded with product and design, engaging with customers, formulating hypotheses, and turning them into shipped, adopted solutions.

You will own the end-to-end technical architecture, telemetry, and instrumentation, ensuring designs and code deliver measurable customer value.