Lead AI Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
T-Systems Iberia2 days ago
Gijón, Spain +7 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and own the platform for building, deploying, and running autonomous AI agents, including model serving, tool-calling, and state management.
- Build high-throughput, low-latency inference services on GPU/TPU clusters and implement autoscaling with Kubernetes and Knative.
- Create CI/CD and MLOps pipelines supporting model versioning, canary releases, and rollback.
- Define SLOs and SLIs, establish monitoring, and lead incident response.
- Implement security controls including IAM, sandboxed execution, and data-residency policies.
- Develop SDKs, CLI tools, and documentation for internal teams and external partners.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote strong code-quality practices.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience and 4+ years building large-scale distributed systems.
- Proficiency in Go or Rust and Python.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
- Hands-on experience with model-serving frameworks such as Triton, vLLM, or TensorFlow Serving and with GPU/TPU workloads.
- Experience with event streaming using Kafka or Pulsar and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi.
- Knowledge of LLM concepts, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool-use APIs.
- Strong debugging, observability, and security skills, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, IAM, and Vault.
- Excellent communication skills and a focus on delivering reliable, production-grade code.
- Preferred: Ph.D. or M.S. in computer science or a related field.
- Preferred: experience with serverless runtimes, vector databases such as FAISS or Milvus, or agent frameworks such as LangChain or AutoGPT.
- Preferred: open-source contributions in AI/ML infrastructure.
Benefits
- Hybrid remote/on-site work model and flexible working hours.
- Collaborative international work environment with mentoring, experience days, and growth opportunities.
- Customized training, Coursera access, and weekly English, Spanish, and German language classes.
- Flexible compensation plan including health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare, and transport benefits.
- Telemedicine, life and accident insurance, social fund, and access to medical, legal, and wellness services.
- 26+ working days of vacation per year.
- 100% salary coverage during medical leave.
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About T-Systems Iberia
T-Systems Iberia provides IT services and consulting—cloud migration and managed services, SAP, outsourcing, and AI/ML platforms—for enterprises and public-sector organizations in Spain and Portugal. It designs and operates hybrid-cloud, data, and application modernization projects, including MLOps pipelines and systems integration. Headquartered in Barcelona and founded in 2001, it is the Iberian arm of T-Systems, the IT services subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom.