Associate - AI Platform Senior Engineer

Job Summary

The Associate, AI Platform Senior Engineer (Foundation Engineering) will support development and maintenance of core AI infrastructure, contributing to agent development, model/prompt optimization, and backend engineering efforts under the guidance of senior team members within the AI Center of Excellence.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and testing AI agent components and workflows
• Support implementation of LLM optimization and prompt engineering techniques under senior engineer guidance
• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting AI systems, deployed on AWS/cloud infrastructure
• Support implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based integrations for agent tool/data access
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable Python code
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and sprint planning
• Document technical processes and contribute to internal knowledge sharing
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in existing AI infrastructure components

Required Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python
• Working knowledge of agent development concepts and frameworks
• Familiarity with LLM/prompt optimization techniques (prompt engineering, RAG, basic fine-tuning approaches)
• Backend development experience (APIs, databases, service integration)
• Required working knowledge of AWS and cloud services
• Mandatory familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) concepts and implementation
• Background or coursework in machine learning fundamentals preferred
• Good communication skills with ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

Educational Requirements

• Bachelors degree required; Masters degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification preferred

Work Experience

• 3+ Years Required; 5+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

7IC

Related Skills

• Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Debugging
• DevOps
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Problem Solving
• Programming
• Software Development
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Software Testing
• Systems Design/Analysis
• Systems Development Life Cycle