Founding AI Platform Engineering Lead
Core
Founding engineering lead owning the architecture and production code for a sovereign cultural AI platform, including model access, inference, lifecycle, and agent-runtime interfaces.
Role type
Founding AI Platform Engineering Lead
Builds
Production AI platform components (gateway, router, foundation models, agent runtime) for cultural AI systems
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Media Rights
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Backend engineering, distributed systems, ML infrastructure, LLM infrastructure, system architecture, incident management, technical leadership
Preferred skills
vLLM, TGI, TensorRT-LLM, KServe, Ray Serve, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, policy engines, multi-provider model orchestration
Responsibilities
Define and evolve common platform architecture, write and review production code, establish secure multi-tenancy and observability, lead design and incident reviews, make build-versus-buy decisions, create handoff paths for engineers and contractors
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC
