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

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 Ave, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814

Schedule

Full Time

Located Remotely?

Y

Position Type

Management

Bonus Eligible

Y

Stock Package

Y

Expiration Date

10/01/2026 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, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Build int