AI Platform Engineer

Mach Industries•Huntington Beach, CA

2d•$115,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Mach Industries is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to build reusable AI platform capabilities that engineering and business teams can adopt safely. The role delivers shared inference integrations, retrieval pipelines, evaluations, and self-service tools. It makes permissions, runtime behavior, and operating costs visible while helping accountable partners assess readiness for their use cases. The engineer will collaborate with data, application, business, and Security partners to implement approved controls and release practices. They will maintain operational evidence and support shared AI services, while business decisions and use-case acceptance remain with accountable owners. Applicants must meet the stated U.S. export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain required authorizations.

Requirements

At least 4 years of software or platform engineering experience, including hands-on AI integrations; the experience requirement does not mean four years in AI.
Ability to build and support AI inference integrations using software engineering practices, including authentication, error handling, automated tests, and documented interfaces.
Working knowledge of retrieval pipelines, source permissions, provenance, and sensitive-data risks, including preserving access restrictions when information reaches AI applications.
Ability to design repeatable evaluations for functional regressions, retrieval quality, permission leakage, prompt-injection risks, and safeguards around AI-triggered tool actions.
Experience instrumenting services and investigating runtime failures, latency, resource use, costs, and configuration issues using actionable, privacy-aware diagnostic evidence.
Ability to document reusable capabilities and collaborate with business, Security, application, and data partners on approved permissions and release controls.
Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State, to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.

Nice To Haves

Experience delivering shared AI capabilities adopted by multiple applications or teams through supported interfaces and examples.
Experience with automated deployment, versioned evaluation assets, and controlled rollout or rollback of AI-enabled services.
Familiarity connecting AI platform controls to enterprise identity, data governance, and established operational support practices.

Responsibilities

Build reusable inference interfaces and self-service templates with least-privilege identities, approved tool permissions, documented failure behavior, and human approval gates.
Partner with data engineers to deliver retrieval pipelines that preserve source permissions and provenance, define refresh behavior, and follow approved ingestion and retrieval constraints.
Create versioned evaluations and release gates for regressions, permission leakage, prompt injection, and tool safeguards; record results and maintain rollback procedures.
Monitor failures, latency, usage, and costs; maintain privacy-aware traces, configurations, runbooks, and incident improvements for supported shared AI services.
Agree on interfaces with application and data teams, implement Security-approved controls, and leave business decisions and use-case acceptance with accountable owners.