Senior Platform Engineer

Join True Anomaly, a pioneering space defense company, as a Senior AI Platform Engineer. In this role, you will build the infrastructure and tools that integrate AI into the workflows of every team across the company. You will have the opportunity to shape how a fast-growing defense technology company operates with AI, and enjoy benefits such as 100% employer-sponsored healthcare, generous time off, equity options, and learning and development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Construire et maintenir l'infrastructure de la plateforme d'IA, y compris les intégrations API, les pipelines d'accès aux modèles et les environnements de calcul sur site.
• Développer des applications, des flux de travail et des intégrations personnalisés alimentés par l'IA qui connectent les modèles de pointe aux systèmes internes.
• Contribuer à l'évaluation technique et à la sélection des fournisseurs d'IA, des outils et des plateformes, en aidant à informer les décisions de construction ou d'achat.
• Ability to work across a broad technical surface area, moving between infrastructure, application development, and platform work as priorities require

Requirements

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• Experience building integrations between software systems using APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, or authentication flows
• Typically 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems, with demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver complex projects with minimal guidance
• Experience using the latest AI powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine tasks. You can read, write, and understand code in common programming languages like Python, Typescript, Java, etc
• Software engineering or similar background with experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages common in AI/ML tooling
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift and the playbook is being written in real time
• Effective communication skills and ability to explain technical AI concepts to non-technical audiences through training, documentation, or direct support
• Experience with large language model APIs, including prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent frameworks (e.g. CrewAI, Pydantic AI)
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance
• Experience deploying AI or ML systems in government, defense, or regulated environments with security and compliance constraints
• Familiarity with government cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) and authorization frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5)

Active U.S. Secret or Top-Secret security clearance

• Experience building knowledge retrieval systems, embedding pipelines, or enterprise search infrastructure
• Experience deploying and operating production workloads to cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal tools teams at high-growth technology companies
• Experience contributing to technical roadmaps and architectural decisions that affect multiple teams or products

Pay

USD 190,000 - 285,000