Senior Associate - AI Platform Lead Engineer

About the role

The Senior Associate, AI Platform Lead Engineer (Foundation Engineering) will design, build, and optimize the core infrastructure and tooling powering AI agent systems and LLM/SLM applications within the AI Center of Excellence. This individual works at the intersection of AI engineering and backend systems design, building scalable, production-grade foundations for enterprise AI initiatives.

What you'll do

• Design and develop AI agent frameworks and orchestration layers supporting enterprise use cases
• Apply LLM optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, prompt/context optimization, caching) to improve latency, cost, and performance
• Lead fine-tuning efforts for small language models (SLMs) tailored to domain-specific use cases
• Architect and implement backend services and APIs supporting AI model integration and deployment
• Design and deploy AI infrastructure and services on AWS/cloud platforms

What you need

• LLMs
• Python
• AWS
• Prompt engineering
• Microservices
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Machine learning