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Staff Engineer, AI Operations & Governance, Workplace AI (R5428)

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Remote · USD 200,000-300,000 / year · 5-7 years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 22, 2026

At a glance

Experience
5-7 years experience
Workplace
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
USD 200,000-300,000 / year

About the role

  • This is a deeply technical individual contributor role reporting to the Head of AI Operations & Governance (Enterprise AI).
  • The person will own significant portions of the technical operating load for workplace AI including platform configuration, integrations, observability, and secrets hygiene.
  • The role also serves as a hands-on technical responder for workplace AI incidents and production issues.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain AI platform configurations
  • Manage connectors, integrations, and data access paths
  • Own observability wiring for AI tools
  • Handle secrets and access hygiene
  • Execute model and configuration changes in production
  • Support technical evaluations and benchmarking
  • Translate technical signals into governance and risk views
  • Contribute to playbooks and training
  • Coordinate and communicate on incidents and changes

Requirements

  • 5–7+ years in roles such as platform engineer, DevOps/SRE, ML/AI operations, or technical SaaS operations, with hands-on responsibility for production systems
  • Strong fluency in APIs, integrations, and infrastructure-as-config concepts
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools and using them to diagnose issues and guide improvements
  • Practical experience working with at least one class of AI or automation platforms
  • Comfort with secure secrets management and access control practices
  • Ability to document technical work and decisions clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong ownership mindset, bias to action, and comfort operating close to production in a high-stakes environment

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in ML/AI ops specifically
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering, policies/guardrails, and configuration patterns for LLM-based systems
  • Exposure to governance, compliance, or risk frameworks for data-driven or AI systems
  • Experience collaborating with Security, Legal, and business stakeholders on technical risk and mitigation
  • Prior involvement in incident response, change management, or on-call rotations for critical systems

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
  • temporary benefits package

Skills

  • APIs
  • JSON
  • YAML
  • LLM

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Staff Engineer, AI Operations & Governance, Workplace AI (R5428)

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