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Job Description
The isolved Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform role owns both program execution and technical direction, leading ~20 engineers across domain teams (Tax, Benefits, Time, Payroll, Shared Logic), alongside two Engineering Managers and a Data Architect. The position blends delivery leadership with deep technical involvement, serving as a key decision-maker, escalation point for complex challenges, and ultimate owner of program outcomes.
Core Job Duties
- Design and build a scalable LLM gateway with model routing, prompt management, cost attribution, rate limiting, and caching
- Develop and operate RAG pipelines, embedding services, and vector search infrastructure for platform-wide use
- Implement platform-level cost optimization strategies, including semantic caching and model selection by workload
- Build and maintain agentic runtime infrastructure, including orchestration, state management, and human-in-the-loop patterns
- Develop extensible MCP server and tool ecosystems for product team integration
- Design and support multi-agent coordination patterns using modern frameworks and protocols
- Establish comprehensive AI observability, including usage, latency, cost tracking, and distributed tracing
- Implement AI governance controls, including access management, audit logging, content filtering, and security protections
- Build AI incident detection and response capabilities, including monitoring for failures, hallucinations, and cost anomalies
- Create developer-friendly SDKs across languages (Python, .NET, TypeScript) to simplify platform adoption
- Define "paved road" patterns for common AI use cases and support onboarding of product teams
- Build automated evaluation pipelines and continuously monitor production quality and model performance
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with Python as your primary language
- 2+ years building production LLM-powered systems - inference, RAG, agentic patterns, or AI infrastructure
- Deep Python expertise - this is the primary language for AI platform work
- Working proficiency in C#/.NET - the platform serves teams that live in C#, so interop is real and matters
- Strong hands-on experience with agentic frameworks - Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, LangChain, or you've built your own
- Production experience with RAG architecture: chunking strategies, embedding models, vector search, retrieval quality, and the failure modes that don't show up in demos
- Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI experience - model deployment, API integration, observability tooling