Senior Platform Engineer, Istari
$145-190k
Digital twin technology
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Digital twin technology
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$145-190k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To level the digital playing field.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems, including systems that integrate AI/ML capabilities
- Experience integrating AI-powered features into production systems, with an understanding of performance, reliability, and governance considerations
- Deep expertise in REST API design and implementation
- Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures
- Strong coding skills across multiple layers of the stack (backend services, SDKs, developer tooling, and AI-integrated systems)
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture and domain-driven design
- Strong proficiency in Python (object-oriented and functional programming)
- Experience with Golang and TypeScript desired
- Track record of technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at both technical and strategic levels
- Must be a US citizen living within the United States
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Core Platform team. In this role, you will own and evolve the end-to-end architecture of the Core Platform, including backend services, SDKs, AI-enabled capabilities, and supporting infrastructure
- You will design and operate scalable APIs, event-driven systems, distributed services, and AI-integrated workflows, ensuring high standards for reliability, performance, observability, and security. This role requires strong architectural judgment, hands-on technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally to deliver extensible platform capabilities that support both traditional integrations and AI-driven use cases
- You will help set technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive engineering best practices across the team
- Own the end-to-end architecture of the Core Platform, including backend services, SDKs, AI-enabled components, and related infrastructure
- Design and implement scalable APIs, event-driven systems, distributed services, and AI-integrated capabilities (including AI/ML and MCP integrations)
- Architect systems that reliably incorporate AI models into production environments, with strong attention to observability, latency, cost management, and failure handling
- Lead API design and implementation with a focus on usability, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Architect and evolve microservices using domain-driven design principles
- Build platform abstractions and primitives that enable AI-driven workflows and agent-based capabilities
- Partner closely with Product, Infra, and Customer Success teams to deliver seamless, customer-centric integration capabilities
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to engineers
- Establish and elevate engineering best practices across design, development, testing, and operations
Our take
In the realm of digital engineering, industries like aerospace, defense, and manufacturing face significant challenges. Traditional methods of designing, testing, and certifying complex systems are often time-consuming, costly, and environmentally taxing. These processes typically require physical prototypes and extensive real-world testing, leading to delays and increased resource consumption.
Istari is transforming this landscape by developing a platform that enables the creation, testing, and certification of technologies entirely in the digital real. Its advanced digital twin technology allows for virtual simulations and modeling, reducing the need for physical prototypes. This approach not only accelerates development timelines but also minimizes costs and environmental impact.
Its making major progress too, including the $19M contract with the US Air Force to help develop the world's first digitally certified aircraft. While the use of digital twins in military applications (especially with potential links to autonomous systems) can raise valid ethical concerns, Istari's focus is on safety, precision, and reducing the need for real-world testing that can be risky or wasteful. By improving how complex systems are designed and certified, its aiming to make engineering across industries more efficient and sustainable.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Feb 2023
$13m
SEED
Total funding: $13m
Company HQ
Crystal City, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Will Roper
(CEO)Will is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Georgia Institute of Technology as well as an Honorary Group Capital at the RAF.
Christopher Benson
(CTO)Christopher has worked at the United States Air Force since 2014 and currently serves as a Senior System Engineer. Previously founded ELLO, AFWERX, StartLabs, and Ring Theory.
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