# AI Platform Engineer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $88,277 - $102,451/annual
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Non-Profit

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## Description

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to own the technical layer underneath its enterprise AI environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for keeping the IRC's enterprise AI environment running, managing platform configurations and API access, building and maintaining integrations between AI tools and IRC systems, writing scripts and automations, and serving as the technical point of contact for data engineering and InfoSec.

**Major Responsibilities**

- AI Systems Administration & Operations (40%): Serve as primary technical administrator across IRC enterprise AI environments, manage user access, API key governance, workspace configurations, and environment-level settings across AI platforms, monitor system health, usage patterns, and API performance across AI tools, and maintain and improve observability across AI systems.

- Integrations & Technical Implementation (35%): Coordinate with the DevOps, SW Engineering and Data Engineering team(s) on deployment processes, environment access, and infrastructure dependencies required to build and maintain AI integrations, develop lightweight scripts, connectors, and automations to support AI-assisted workflows across teams, and troubleshoot integration failures, data flow issues, and API connectivity problems across the AI ecosystem.

- Monitoring, Resource Optimization & InfoSec Liaison (15%): Track and report on AI resource utilization across platforms, identify opportunities to reduce waste and improve cost efficiency, serve as the technical point of contact with the InfoSec team on matters related to AI system security, data handling, access controls, and compliance requirements, and contribute to the development of technical SOPs and best-practice guidelines for AI system use.

- Stakeholder Support & Collaboration (10%): Act as a technical resource for program and operations teams adopting AI tools, participate in rollout planning for new AI capabilities, and collaborate with the AI Platform Support Director on onboarding documentation and technical guidance materials for end users.

**Required Experience & Skills**

- AI & Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience administering enterprise AI platforms (Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or comparable tools), familiarity with LLM application infrastructure, and experience working with Databricks or comparable data/ML platforms.

- Integration & Development: Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript for scripting, automation, and lightweight integration work, experience building and maintaining REST API integrations, and comfort reading and working within existing codebases.

- Systems Administration & Monitoring: Experience monitoring distributed systems or SaaS platforms, familiarity with usage/cost monitoring for cloud or API-based services, and comfort operating in live production environments.

- Security & Compliance: Working knowledge of information security principles, ability to engage constructively with InfoSec teams, and strong documentation habits.

- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical colleagues, experience contributing to cross-functional teams, and strong documentation habits.

**Working Environment**

- This role is remote, with the possibility of in-person work depending on location.

- Stakeholders are located across multiple time zones (GMT-8 to GMT+3), which may require occasional early or late meetings.

**Compensation:**

- $88,277 - $102,451/annual

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JavaScript
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- Databricks
- REST API integrations
- information security principles

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