AI Platform Engineer (m/f/d)
Allianz SE1 day ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based AI platform runtime, gateways, routing, caching, shared RAG services, and prompt and skills management.
- Provide platform-wide AI FinOps, quotas, usage metering, budgeting, safety, compliance, and policy enforcement capabilities.
- Define and maintain AI platform standards, including frameworks, SDKs, Spec Kits, and MCP interfaces.
- Curate the AI tooling landscape and manage capabilities from sandbox experimentation through standardization or retirement.
- Implement observability with metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, cost and performance instrumentation, and incident response processes.
- Optimize scalability, reliability, and cost across regions and environments while driving capacity planning, release automation, and risk recovery.
- Partner with AI Gateway and governance owners, hyperscalers, and AI frontier labs 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 with an enablement mindset.
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, MLOps or LLMOps stacks, vector databases or embedding stores, routing and caching layers, and identity or risk management.
- Strong software engineering skills in one or more of Python, TypeScript, and Go.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform and with reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices.
- Experience implementing governance, compliance, safety guardrails, and AI FinOps at the platform layer.
- Pragmatic product sense, vendor evaluation and partnership skills, and comfort making decisions under ambiguity.
- Fluency in English.
- Familiarity with machine learning is a strong advantage.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with remote working and up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
- Company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program, and multiple employee discounts, with details 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 support.
- 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.