Job Description:
Senior Lead Engineer – AI Platform engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Platform Engineer to serve as a technical leader and architect responsible for designing, building, and evolving Guardian's enterprise AI Platform.
This role will provide architecture leadership across the AI platform stack, spanning:
Experience Plane – AI developer experience, SDKs, AI Studio, agent builder frameworks, developer portals and reusable platform assets
Control Plane – AI governance, policy enforcement, guardrails, evaluation frameworks, AI registry, observability, and FinOps
Execution Plane – Agent runtimes, LLM inference, orchestration frameworks, MCP services, AI gateways, RAG infrastructure and production operations
The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect capable of defining platform standards, building reusable capabilities, solving complex engineering challenges, and driving enterprise adoption of AI and Agentic technologies.
Required
7+ years of AI Platform Engineering experience.
3+ years designing cloud-native distributed platforms.




3+ years architecting AI/ML or GenAI platforms.
Proven experience building enterprise-grade platform capabilities.
Preferred
Experience building Control Plane architectures.
Experience with enterprise-scale AI governance.
Experience supporting production GenAI workloads.
Experience building AI platforms within regulated industries.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
AWS
EKS / Kubernetes
Serverless Architectures
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
GitHub Actions
CI/CD Platforms
AI Platform Technologies
AWS Bedrock
Model Gateways
Vector Databases
RAG Architectures
AI Studio Platforms
Agent Runtime Platforms
API Gateways
Observability & Operations
Splunk
CloudWatch
OpenTelemetry
AppDynamics
Monitoring & Alerting
LLMOps
AgentOps
Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai, Gurgaon
Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday

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