AI Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
Allianz SE11 hours ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based AI platform runtime, including gateways, model routing, caching, and shared RAG services.
- Provide platform capabilities for quotas, usage metering, AI FinOps, budgeting, safety, compliance, and policy enforcement.
- Define and maintain platform standards, SDKs, Spec Kits, MCP interfaces, frameworks, and AI tool lifecycles.
- Implement observability with metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, cost instrumentation, performance instrumentation, and incident response processes.
- Optimize scalability, reliability, capacity, release automation, risk recovery, and cost across regions and environments.
- Collaborate with governance owners, hyperscalers, AI frontier labs, and internal teams on regulated-industry features, terms of service, and roadmaps.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and operating AI or developer platforms at production scale, ideally in regulated or large-scale environments.
- Hands-on experience shipping platform capabilities used by multiple teams.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, MLOps/LLMOps stacks, vector databases or embedding stores, routing and caching layers, and identity or risk management.
- Strong software engineering skills in technologies such as Python, TypeScript, or Go, plus infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform.
- Experience with CI/CD and SRE practices for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Experience implementing platform-layer governance, compliance, safety guardrails, and AI FinOps.
- Strong vendor evaluation, partnership, collaboration, and decision-making skills.
- Fluency in English.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning is a strong advantage.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
- Company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program, and multiple employee discounts, varying by location.
- Career development, digital learning programs, international career mobility, and lifelong learning opportunities.
- Flexible working and health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare and parental leave.
- Full-time, permanent employment.
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About Allianz SE
Allianz SE is a Munich-based public company that provides property-casualty, life and health insurance, and asset management to individuals and businesses worldwide. It earns premiums and investment-management fees, operating through brands such as Allianz Commercial and asset managers including PIMCO and Allianz Global Investors. Founded in 1890 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, it serves over 100 million customers in about 70 countries.