Senior Ai Platform Engineer

Alpaca

Remote, USA
Remote
8+ years software engineering experience
Hands-on agentic ai system development
Google cloud platform (gcp) expertise
Alpaca is building an AI Enablement function to transition from scattered experimentation to durable, company-wide productivity gains

Job Summary

  • Alpaca is building an AI Enablement function to transition from scattered experimentation to durable, company-wide productivity gains.
  • The role requires hands-on experience building LLM-powered agents, tool-use workflows, and autonomous execution patterns rather than classical ML pipelines.
  • This position involves defining technical standards for agent execution, ensuring safety through isolation boundaries, and partnering with Security to deploy high-autonomy systems.

Matching Summary

Alpaca is building an AI Enablement function to transition from scattered experimentation to durable, company-wide productivity gains.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 8+ years software engineering experience
  • Hands-on agentic AI system development
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • AI governance and access control implementation
  • API, OAuth, and secrets management

Nice-to-have

  • Production agentic systems with tool access
  • Experience with Google Vertex AI Agent Builder
  • Familiarity with AI-native coding environments
  • Agent sandboxing and isolation frameworks
  • Self-service developer platform design
  • Startup environment experience

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years in software or infrastructure roles
  • Direct GCP cloud-native systems experience
  • Proven track record with agentic AI frameworks

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