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Principal Engineer - AI Platform & Operations

California City, California, United States🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $168,000–$230,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and own the technical vision for foundational AI platform systems enabling model serving, feature stores, and experiment tracking for all AI product teams.

Role type

Principal Engineer (AI Platform & Operations)

Builds

Self-serve internal developer platforms for deploying, monitoring, and scaling AI models

Domain

Business travel technology / AI Infrastructure / MLOps

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML infrastructure design, distributed systems, Kubernetes, cloud ecosystems (AWS/GCP/Azure), Python, LLM inference optimization, platform architecture, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Experience with Triton, vLLM, Ray Serve, MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow, Docker, Helm

Technologies

Triton, vLLM, Ray Serve, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow, Docker, Helm

Responsibilities

Define long-term technical roadmap for AI platform covering model serving and CI/CD; Establish engineering benchmarks for deployment and A/B testing; Lead strategies for GPU/compute efficiency and LLM inference optimization; Design monitoring and alerting systems for AI workloads; Drive platform stability and partner with application teams; Mentor senior engineers and lead architecture reviews

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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