Senior Platform Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Platform Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate product development with an accent on MLOps and internal developer tooling. Focus on automating workflows, managing cloud infrastructure, and supporting AI/ML initiatives within an aerospace environment.

Location: Must be based in San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $144,000 - $175,000

Company

hirify.global is an aerospace company building all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to advance sustainable air mobility.

What you will do

• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid and safe deployments.
• Develop self-service infrastructure tooling using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to operationalize MLOps pipelines and optimize GPU resource allocation.
• Architect automated workflows and bots to streamline engineering tasks and incident response.
• Establish guardrails and policy-as-code to ensure security and cost efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Strong proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and scripting (Python, Go, Bash).
• Must be authorized to work in the US; no visa sponsorship available.
• Extensive experience designing and managing CI/CD systems at scale.

Nice to have

• Experience with MLOps tooling (Airflow, Kubeflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker).
• Familiarity with distributed tracing and monitoring systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Experience building conversational interfaces or bots for Slack/Teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Pay-for-performance culture focused on rewarding business strategy impact.
• Commitment to an equitable and inclusive workplace.
• Opportunity to work on complex, interdisciplinary aerospace challenges.