Staff AI Platform Engineer: Internal Tools & LLMs

D-Wave Quantum Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

D-Wave Quantum Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff AI Platform Developer to lead architecture and development of internal AI tooling across the company.

In this role, you will help us build practical tools using LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow automation, and AI-assisted development capabilities. Your work will help D-Wavers work faster and more effectively while keeping our internal tools secure, maintainable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering or related technical field.
• 7+ years in software engineering/platform engineering/internal tool development/ML systems.
• Strong experience across the LLM application stack: prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, vector search, and tool use.
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks and interoperability protocols (MCP, ACP).
• Experience evaluating and securing LLM systems in production, and cost optimization.
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and backend services.
• Proficiency with Git, CI/CD, Linux/Unix, containers, and production deployment workflows.
• Ability to work across teams and document requirements clearly.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of AI capabilities across D-Wave’s Product Development teams.
• Lead architecture and implementation of internal AI solutions, including LLM applications, agents, RAG systems, and workflow automation.
• Build prototypes and production services that integrate with internal systems (GitHub, Jira, Slack, docs, service desks).
• Design reusable platform components for model access, prompt/configuration management, permissions-aware retrieval, logging, monitoring, and cost tracking.
• Evaluate AI models, APIs, tools, and vendors focusing on quality, reliability, security, privacy, latency, and cost.
• Design guardrails for data handling, access control, prompt injection, output validation, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Transition production AI solutions back to Product Development teams for long-term ownership.
• Help teams automate internal workflows and adopt AI solutions safely and measurably.
• Document patterns and best practices so other developers can build AI-enabled tools consistently.
• Track adoption, reliability, and cost to ensure measurable value and impact.
• Promote responsible AI practices across teams and participate in technical knowledge sharing.
• Lead AI office hours and contribute to yearly Hackathon and on-call rotations.

Skills

LLM applications

Agent orchestration

REST APIs

DevOps practices

Git CI/CD

Linux/Unix

Secure AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

D-Wave Quantum Inc. in the United States is seeking a Staff AI Platform Developer to lead architecture and development of internal AI tooling across the company.

In this role, you will help us build practical tools using LLMs, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, workflow automation, and AI-assisted development capabilities. Your work will help D-Wavers work faster and more effectively while keeping our internal tools secure, maintainable, reliable, and cost-effective.