Senior AI Platform Engineer

At Firestorm, we're building autonomous aerial systems that operate where they are needed most, when they are needed most. We are looking for a Senior AI Platform Engineer who is excited to build the platform foundations that make AI-enabled software reliable, secure, and operable at scale.

Requirements

• Build and operate core backend services that power AI-enabled workflows (APIs, orchestration, storage, and internal integrations)
• Design scalable data models and registries for versioned artifacts and metadata, with strong traceability and auditability
• Implement secure-by-default service patterns: authN/authZ, audit logs, secrets handling, and least-privilege access
• Build reliability foundations: observability, metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs, incident response playbooks
• Implement idempotent APIs and state-handling patterns for resilient workflows (retries, partial failure, reconciliation)
• Create integration adapters and event-driven plumbing to safely connect workflows to internal systems
• Establish release and deployment practices: CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion, rollback strategies, and safe migrations
• Partner closely with AI and application engineers to define interfaces, validation layers, and operational constraints
• Identify performance, scalability, and security risks early and ship pragmatic solutions quickly

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and visions plans
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Equity grants for new hires
• Unlimited PTO
• Extremely generous company holiday calendar
• Generous Parental Leave
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• FSA
• DCFSA
• HSA
• Hospital Indemnity insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Accident insurance
• Basic Life/AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance