Platform Engineer

• Build and operate PEMCO’s AI platform, including GPU compute, model serving, retrieval, orchestration, observability, and governance
• Own AI economics and observability through consumption telemetry, cost-per-agent/workflow/outcome metrics, token usage, GPU utilization, tracing, evaluation, and drift monitoring
• Run a unified AI gateway for provider/model routing, fallback chains, quotas, and per-agent cost capture
• Stand up high-throughput open-weight model serving on Azure GPU capacity using vLLM and Triton/TensorRT-LLM
• Perform quantization and right-sizing, and produce sizing evidence for potential on-premise GPU investments
• Build governed retrieval infrastructure with vector stores, embedding pipelines, chunking, and document processing
• Deploy, monitor, support incidents for, and retire production agents using MCP-based orchestration and least-privilege identities
• Represent platform reliability, security, and economics in AI solution reviews and propose architecture alternatives
• Enforce AI governance through model/agent RBAC, prompt/output guardrails, and authority to block noncompliant deployments
• Operate Azure GPU VMs and AKS GPU pools, with on-premise GPU build-out when justified
• Manage model lifecycle from evaluation through retirement and optimize cost against capability through model selection, routing, caching, batching, and token budgets

Principal AI Platform Engineer

• Own system design end to end, including problem statement, architecture, interfaces, data model, rollout, and components built by other engineers
• Coach and develop engineers through teaching-oriented reviews, pairing, and stretching assignments
• Own API contracts between systems and teams, including guarantees, versioning, and migrations
• Set and document technical direction so other teams can build against it independently
• Break large, ambiguous problems into sequenced, estimable, deliverable work
• Lead delivery across team boundaries, including coordination and follow-up
• Write and review code and carry the pager for owned systems
• Own monitoring, on-call, incident response, and recurrence-prevention follow-up
• Serve as the company’s domain expert and share knowledge with others
• Improve CI/CD, observability, testing practices, and documentation

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

• Own technical direction for an area spanning several teams over a multi-year horizon
• Raise engineers' level across the organisation through design and architecture reviews, pairing, and educational writing
• Deliver large initiatives by developing the engineers who build them
• Address cross-team problems that no single team owns, including un-escalated issues
• Write design documents and technical standards used by other teams
• Serve as the company's domain expert and make that expertise available
• Prototype to resolve open questions using evidence
• Write and review code, debug production issues, and carry the pager for owned systems
• Identify and fix technical causes of organisational slowness
• Partner with engineering managers and product on planning, sequencing, and stopping work when appropriate

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

• Own the north star architecture for cloud platform, CI/CD, and SRE over a two- to three-year horizon
• Establish design principles that enable teams to make sound technical decisions independently
• Identify platform limitations before they cause incidents or missed dates
• Own cross-team problems lacking clear ownership and carry them through to solutions
• Attach reliability targets to business capabilities and establish deliberate degradation as a design expectation
• Drive consensus across Platform, SRE, Security, product, and engineering teams
• Enforce standards through pipelines and production validation gating
• Guide design reviews and ensure delivered systems match agreed designs
• Evaluate industry trends and emerging capabilities for adoption
• Act as a technical decision maker during significant incidents
• Convert incident learnings into platform defaults
• Mentor principal and senior engineers across the organization
• Encourage open technical debate and develop senior technical talent
• Serve as a trendsetter in hiring for senior technical roles
• Represent Nordstrom's platform engineering externally

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