The AI Platform team is responsible for building and supporting enterprise AI capabilities. They are not building business use cases or AI solutions directly.
Tech Hubs: Atlanta, BayArea, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas-Metro, Denver, Milwaukee, MSP, NY, Portland, St. Louis, San Jose,Ca
Their role is to:
· Build and maintain AI platform infrastructure
· Enable other teams to consume AI capabilities
· Support cloud-based AI services
· Establish platform standards and controls
· Scale AI capabilities across the enterprise
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Must Haves
Infrastructure Engineering Background
Managers repeatedly emphasized that these candidates need strong infrastructure experience.
Candidates should have experience with:
· Cloud platforms
· Platform engineering
· Infrastructure automation
Infrastructure-as-Code
· Enterprise-scale deployments
This is not an application development team.
AWS Experience - AWS is the primary hiring focus.
· Terraform
· Infrastructure provisioning
· Infrastructure automation
Candidates should be comfortable:
· Writing IaC
· Maintaining IaC
· Troubleshooting IaC
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Kubernetes
Candidates should have experience with:
· Kubernetes
· Container orchestration
Examples discussed:
· EKS
· AKS
Managers indicated Kubernetes experience is important, especially in cloud-native environments.
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Enterprise Communication
This came up multiple times.
Candidates need to:
· Participate in technical discussions
· Work with multiple teams
· Influence without authority
· Explain technical concepts
· Function in a highly collaborative environment
The AI Platform team supports hundreds of teams across the organization.
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Documentation & Design
Meena emphasized this heavily.
Candidates should be comfortable:
· Writing technical documentation
· Creating design documents
· Supporting architecture reviews
· Explaining design decisions
This role is not "just coding."
Documentation is considered an important part of the job.
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Senior-Level Experience
Minimum guidance provided:
10+ years of engineering experience
Managers want:
· Experienced contributors
· Independent problem solvers
· Individuals who require minimal hand-holding