Staff AI Platform Engineer
Core
Design, develop, and maintain the Altos Agentic AI Platform, including autonomous compute systems, Kubernetes clusters, and high-performance LLM proxies for scientific research.
Role type
Staff AI Platform Engineer
Builds
Agentic AI platforms, scalable compute systems, and secure infrastructure for scientific applications
Domain
Life Sciences / Cloud Infrastructure / Generative AI
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes (k8s) architecture, AWS Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), Python/Ruby/Bash, microservices design, agentic AI concepts, LLM proxy implementation, FinOps, observability
Preferred skills
Life sciences software development, platform engineering for ML teams, mentoring, automated testing
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CDK, Python, Ruby, Bash, mTLS, service mesh, MCP
Responsibilities
Implement platform technologies for AI-enabled scientific applications; design and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters; implement network and security controls; optimize dynamic compute and autoscaling; manage service mesh and traffic routing; build high-performance LLM proxies; optimize system performance and cloud financial operations; improve system reliability via automation and CI/CD.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence