Director, Platform Engineering (AI)

Location: Onsite in Kraków, Poland; ability to travel up to 20%.

Company

hirify.global is a global science and technology company operating across life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology.

What you will do

• Own availability, performance, recovery, and end-to-end reliability for the platform supporting enterprise AI initiatives.
• Lead incident detection, triage, mitigation, post-incident reviews, SLOs, error budgets, and on-call practices.
• Design and operate GPU and accelerator fleets, cloud infrastructure, storage, networking, scheduling, and capacity management for AI workloads.
• Own application support, deployment, configuration, runtime health, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, environment management, and release engineering.
• Partner with AI teams in molecular design, autonomous labs, supply chain, and professional services to translate reliability and capacity needs into platform improvements.
• Define reliability strategies for LLM-based and agentic systems, including observability, evaluation, guardrails, governance, and safe execution patterns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of engineering experience, including substantial ownership of production reliability, SRE, or platform operations for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience leading and scaling multidisciplinary engineering organizations across distributed time zones.
• Hands-on incident management experience, including on-call design, escalation paths, blameless post-incident reviews, and permanent remediation.
• Production experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Docker, Kubernetes; Terraform, Pulumi, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools; and ML/AI infrastructure at scale.
• Strong observability, automation, communication, and internal customer management skills.

Nice to have

• Production experience with LLM and agentic systems, including inference serving, evaluation, guardrails, or observability for non-deterministic workloads.
• Experience with HPC, lab automation, instrument data pipelines, or other scientific computing environments.
• Experience with SOC 2, FedRAMP, GxP, multi-cloud, or on-premise infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Corporate role hosted by the Cytiva operating company in Kraków.
• Work within a culture of continuous improvement and belonging.
• Opportunity to support science and technology initiatives with real-world impact.
• Travel of up to 20% is expected.