Senior AI Platform Engineer

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. Senior engineer who ships production software and AI systems on cloud infrastructure that is reliable, secure, and cost-disciplined. You design applications and services, operate inference platforms and pipelines, and treat unit economics (tokens, GPU-hours, idle capacity) as engineering constraints. You partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver working software, higher reliability, and lower cost per unit of AI value.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship production services, APIs, and (where needed) user-facing interfaces; Own the full lifecycle: implementation, tests, code review, CI/CD, deploy, and maintenance; Write maintainable code in Python plus one more stack (TypeScript/Node, Go, or Java); Build and operate production AI systems: RAG, evaluation, fine-tuning, serving, and inference optimization; Turn prototypes into reusable platform capabilities with CI/CD, eval, and governance; Architect AWS/GCP environments with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD for apps and model pipelines; Own observability and incident response; partner on SOC 2/SOX and least-privilege IAM; Treat cloud and AI spend as an engineering problem: visibility, attribution, budgets, and reduction; Optimize GPUs, inference routing, model choice, and right-sizing; track cost per request/token and GPU idle

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development, owning production systems (not only scripts or notebooks); Shipped backend services/APIs and production AI/ML (LLMs, RAG, serving); Strong Python plus a second stack; PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent serving; AWS or GCP with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD; Proven work reducing or governing cloud/AI spend; Clear communication of technical and cost tradeoffs; you run what you build

Nice to have

Full-stack (React/Next.js); vector databases; inference optimization; FinOps tooling; SOX/SOC 2; Copilot/Cursor

Benefits

Health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits; Paid time off; Sick time off; Short term and long term disability coverage; Life insurance; 401k contribution; Restricted stock units may be included in total compensation (subject to eligibility requirements)