AI Platform Lead Engineer
The Senior Associate, AI Platform Lead Engineer (Foundation Engineering) will design, build, and optimize the core infrastructure and tooling powering AI agent systems and LLM/SLM applications within the AI Center of Excellence. This individual works at the intersection of AI engineering and backend systems design, building scalable, production-grade foundations for enterprise AI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities and Duties
• Design and develop AI agent frameworks and orchestration layers supporting enterprise use cases
• Apply LLM optimization techniques (quantization, distillation, prompt/context optimization, caching) to improve latency, cost, and performance
• Lead fine-tuning efforts for small language models (SLMs) tailored to domain-specific use cases
• Architect and implement backend services and APIs supporting AI model integration and deployment
• Design and deploy AI infrastructure and services on AWS/cloud platforms
• Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations to enable standardized tool and data access for AI agents




• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Mentor Associate-level engineers and review code/design for quality
• Evaluate emerging agentic AI and LLM engineering tools/research and recommend adoption
• Contribute to engineering standards and documentation for the Foundation Engineering practice

Required Qualifications
• Solid proficiency in Python with production-grade backend development experience
• Demonstrated experience with agent development frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen)
• Proven experience designing and deploying enterprise-scale LLM solutions, multi-agent workflows, and advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures with robust context and memory management systems
• Hands-on experience with LLM optimization techniques (prompt engineering, RAG, quantization, distillation, fine-tuning)
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