Director/Principle Engineer, Platform Engineering – TIP.AI Platform

About this role

Additional Information
Bethesda, MD Pay Range: $127,000-$215,000 annuallyRemote, Pay Range: $119,000-$201,000 annually


Job Number
26109227


Job Category
Information Technology


Location
7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda MD 20814, United States VIEW ON MAP


Schedule
Full Time


Located Remotely?
Y


Position Type
Management


Bonus Eligible:
Y


Stock Package:
Y


Expiration Date:
10/21/2026


Position Overview
The Director, AI Platform Engineering is a senior technical role responsible for designing, building, and operating the highly scalable, resilient platform infrastructure that powers AI systems across the enterprise. This role functions as a principal engineer, building and architecting technical solutions, establishing platform standards, and solving the most complex scalability, reliability, and performance challenges, while also providing technical leadership and mentorship across multiple engineering teams.


The ideal candidate is deeply hands‑on, systems‑oriented, and experienced operating large‑scale, cloud‑native platforms that support mission‑critical AI, data, and automation workloads. This leader thrives at the intersection of architecture, reliability, developer productivity, and operational excellence.


Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the core platform architecture for TIP.AI, ensuring it is scalable, highly available, secure, and cost‑efficient at enterprise scale.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards for platform services.
• Own platform reliability, including availability, performance, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core platform services.
• Build and mature observability practices (metrics, logs, traces) to ensure deep operational insight.
• Partner with security teams to ensure platform designs meet enterprise security, p...