AI Platform Engineer
Scalable Capital
Seniority
Midweight
Model
In-Office
Sector
Salary
Undisclosed
Contract
Full-Time
About the role
As an AI Platform Engineer embedded within our Data Science and AI tribe, you will design and maintain the foundational infrastructure that enables our AI Software Engineers to build and scale generative AI applications. You will build our internal AI provisioning platform, focusing on seamless model access, observability, and strict governance.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain an internal AI provisioning platform to streamline access to various LLMs & MCP Servers (e.g., via LiteLLM).
- Implement comprehensive LLM observability, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Datadog and Langfuse.
- Enforce model governance, ensuring security, data privacy, rate limiting, and strict LLM API cost management.
- Collaborate closely with embedded AI Software Engineers to support cloud-native architectures and agentic workflow integrations.
- Build and maintain infrastructure for monitoring the reliability and performance of production AI systems.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 2+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or backend software development.
- Strong experience and confidence working with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go) and experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (e.g., Docker).
- Solid understanding of API cost management, rate limiting, security best practices, and data privacy for AI models.
- Experience with, or a strong willingness to learn, LLM gateways, observability platforms, and telemetry (e.g., LiteLLM, Langfuse, Datadog).
Nice to have
- Strong problem-solving skills, a sense of humor, and the ability to thrive in an ego-free environment as an embedded platform expert within a cross-functional Data Science and AI team.
What they offer
- Attractive compensation package and company pension scheme
- Latest hardware and tools
- Individual Education Budget for learning and development
- International relocation support and opportunity to work from abroad
- 50% contribution for Deutschland Jobticket and complimentary Scalable Capital PRIME+ Broker subscription
- Flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club