Senior AI Platform Engineer, Nextdata

• Strong experience with backend systems, data platforms, or distributed systems
• Practical experience building agentic AI applications using LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks
• Experience with RAG, retrieval, semantic search, tool calling, and multi-step agent workflows
• Strong Python and API development skills
• Experience with SQL, documents, metadata systems, and vector search
• Familiarity with MCP or similar agent interfaces
• Understanding of access control, policies, lineage, data quality, PII protection, and auditability
• Ability to become productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase
• Good judgment on scope, trade-offs, and production readiness

Desirable

• Nextdata is looking for an experienced AI Platform Engineer for an initial three-month project focused on building and validating an AI-enabled data platform capability
• This is a hands-on implementation role. You will quickly ramp up on an existing project and build backend services, agent tools, APIs, and data integrations. The role has no customer-facing responsibilities and less emphasis on architecture than a principal-level position
• If successful, the project may continue and develop into a broader Nextdata product
• Quickly understand the existing codebase, requirements, and technical direction
• Build backend services, AI agents, tools, and APIs for governed data access
• Implement MCP-compatible endpoints or similar agent interfaces
• Integrate SQL, documents, APIs, metadata, semantic models, and vector search
• Build retrieval, tool selection, context construction, and grounded response flows
• Add access controls, policy enforcement, audit logging, tests, and observability
• Deliver a reliable, documented system within the three-month project scope
• Initial term: three to four months
• Focus: hands-on implementation and delivery
• No customer-facing responsibilities
• Potential extension if the project is successful