Senior AI DevOps Developer [584]
D-Wave Systems3 months ago
Canada (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$150k - $206k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate D-Wave’s internal AI tools platform.
- Build and operate deployment pipelines for models, prompts, and evaluations, including versioning, cost tracking, and rollback strategies.
- Streamline AI-enabled build and release management processes through continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
- Design and operate AI-powered development, on-call, and agentic workflows.
- Participate in security reviews and compliance efforts by implementing security controls, access rules, and service configurations.
- Apply DevOps practices to testing, monitoring, performance, durability, and reliability improvements.
- Respond to operational incidents and development questions, and perform root-cause analysis.
- Promote AI usage policies, guardrails, and data-handling standards across development teams.
- Participate in AI office hours, lead group discussions, and contribute to AI platform architecture decisions.
- Join the on-call rotation to support application availability and reliability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting modern cloud-based or on-premises infrastructure, DevOps platforms, or SaaS/PaaS environments.
- Hands-on experience building and supporting production AI applications, including LLM applications, AI agents, workflow automation, or generative AI solutions.
- Strong understanding of LLM application concepts including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, reranking, context management, structured outputs, tool use, evaluation, and AI security practices.
- Experience with AWS generative AI technologies such as Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, plus agentic orchestration frameworks and interoperability protocols such as MCP and ACP.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, artifact management, and containerized deployment environments using Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Jenkins, Git, or equivalent tools.
- Strong Linux administration skills, including troubleshooting, log analysis, system diagnostics, SSH, certificates, security fundamentals, and automation using Python, Go, Groovy, or similar languages.
- Experience integrating monitoring and observability solutions such as Grafana, OpenSearch, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Zabbix, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience integrating third-party services and REST-based APIs within Linux-based environments.
- Ability to work independently, solve ambiguous technical problems, collaborate across teams, and translate business workflows into scalable technical solutions.
Benefits
- The company offers ownership, competitive pay, equity, bonus, perks, benefits, and other total-rewards offerings.
- Employees work in a culture focused on inclusion, diverse perspectives, accountability, professional growth, and empowerment.
- The role includes participation in an on-call rotation.
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About D-Wave Systems
D-Wave Systems builds quantum computing hardware and software, focused on quantum annealing, with access delivered via its Leap cloud and on-premise systems. It sells subscriptions, systems, and professional services to commercial, government, and research users tackling optimization and machine-learning workloads. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a public company listed on the NYSE.