Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ode is a technology studio that collaborates with scientists, journalists, and nonprofits to provide data and AI solutions for environmental issues. The role of the AI Platform Engineer involves owning the infrastructure for client projects, implementing cloud infrastructure, and contributing to application code while ensuring reliability and maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure via IaC across client-specific environments (AWS, GCP, and others as needed)
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines standardized across projects
• Implement observability across infrastructure and AI systems: monitoring, logging, alerting, and guardrails for LLM-powered features, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuned models
• Implement security, secrets management, and compliance patterns reusable across projects
• Run evaluation pipelines and surface results to the AI engineering team: flag regressions and degradation in model behavior, cost, and latency
• Maintain a shared registry of models, datasets, and data sources across projects — versioned, documented, and accessible to the team
• Contribute application code and debug across the stack when the team needs it
• Monitor and minimize costs of infrastructure and model inference
• Identify opportunities to templatize infrastructure patterns for reuse across projects
• Train engineers and clients to operate the platforms and infrastructure you deliver, and document for handoffI am one dozen

Skills

• Can architect a system from scratch when the problem isn't fully defined, and see it through to public release
• Know what is good enough for a prototype vs. an MVP vs. a product that scales—and have experience with all three
• Have built real evaluation suites for AI/ML systems
• Find reliability, monitoring, and evals interesting rather than an afterthought
• Have experience on small teams with broad responsibility
• Collaborate well with people across disciplines and organizations
• Want your work to do something that matters

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