Senior Platform Engineer, AI
True AnomalyBase Salary
$170k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, including API integrations, model access pipelines, system connectors, MCP and tool-use capabilities, and on-premises compute environments.
- Develop AI-powered applications, workflows, and integrations connecting frontier models to internal project management, documentation, communications, and operational systems.
- Evaluate AI providers, tools, and platforms and contribute to build-versus-buy decisions based on capability, compliance, and speed to value.
- Design and deliver AI training and enablement through workshops, office hours, documentation, and shared resources.
- Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure AI deployments satisfy government security and compliance requirements across data classification levels.
- Monitor the evolving AI landscape and identify models, tools, and capabilities that could accelerate the company.
Requirements
- Typically 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Experience building production systems and coding in Python, TypeScript, Java, or similar languages used in AI and ML tooling.
- Experience using AI-powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine tasks.
- Experience with large language model APIs, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, or agent frameworks such as CrewAI and Pydantic AI.
- Experience integrating software systems through APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, or authentication flows.
- Ability to work across infrastructure, application development, and platform engineering.
- Ability to explain technical AI concepts to nontechnical audiences through training, documentation, or direct support.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance.
- Preferred experience deploying AI or ML systems in government, defense, or regulated environments.
- Preferred experience operating production workloads in AWS, Azure, or GCP and familiarity with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and IL4/IL5.
- Preferred background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal tools teams.
- Preferred experience building knowledge retrieval systems, embedding pipelines, or enterprise search infrastructure.
- Preferred experience contributing to technical roadmaps and architectural decisions affecting multiple teams or products.
- An active U.S. Secret or Top-Secret security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity and health, dental, vision, HRA/HSA, PTO, paid holidays, 401(k), and parental leave are provided.
- Hybrid work in Long Beach, CA, or Denver, CO, with an average expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
- The role may require onsite work for classified systems and is subject to changing business needs.
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About True Anomaly
True Anomaly is the only defense technology company focused exclusively on space defense. Founded in 2022 by ex-U.S. Space Force members, True Anomaly designs and builds advanced systems for space superiority: agile and powerful spacecraft platforms, mission software engineered for unmatched command and control, and payloads tailored for precision sensing and effects. We are headquartered in Centennial, Colorado, with regional offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Long Beach, California, and Washington, D.C. We are hiring and seeking exceptional talent to join True Anomaly, from any technical industry or background, to bring unique talents, perspective, and solutions. If you embrace complexity, demonstrate relentless ownership, have the resiliency and persistence to overcome challenges. If you’re like us and want your work to carry purpose and shape the future of space, visit www.WhyAreYouHere.com.