# AI Platform Engineer

**Company**: Starburst
**Location**: India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

You will join Starburst, a company that provides enterprise intelligence at scale, and work as an AI Platform Engineer. This role involves building shared development primitives that enable multiple product teams to work faster.

## Responsibilities

- Design and build an agent development SDK that abstracts common patterns such as tool registration, context management, evaluation hooks, and prompt management.

- Create a language bridge between Python and JVM with type safety, error propagation, and observability.

- Develop developer tooling, including local development environments, debugging tools, test harnesses, and CI integration.

- Define and maintain API contracts between the AI layer and the Starburst platform.

- Build shared infrastructure, including model gateways, observability pipelines, and experiment frameworks.

- Develop unified, product-agnostic components used across multiple products.

- Own platform health beyond feature delivery, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer ergonomics.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years building platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling.

- Proficiency in both Python and JVM languages (Java or Kotlin).

- Experience designing APIs and SDKs consumed by other engineering teams.

- Strong distributed systems fundamentals: RPC, serialization, error handling, observability.

- Experience with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred).

- Track record of building tools that measurably improve other engineers' velocity.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with LLM integration patterns: model APIs, token management, streaming, tool use.

- Experience with cross-language interop (gRPC, FFI, language bridges).

- Open-source contributions to developer tooling or infrastructure projects.

- Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks and experiment infrastructure.

- Experience supporting both research and production workloads on the same platform.

- Java agent framework experience (LangChain4j).

## Travel Requirements

This role requires 25% in-person travel for purposes including new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- JVM languages (Java or Kotlin)
- API design
- SDK development
- Distributed systems
- Containerization
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

### Nice to have
- LLM integration patterns
- Cross-language interop (gRPC, FFI, language bridges)
- Open-source contributions
- A/B testing frameworks
- Experiment infrastructure
- Java agent framework (LangChain4j)

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