AI Platform Engineer

About the role

The International Rescue Committee is expanding its enterprise AI capabilities and needs a technical operations specialist to keep its AI platforms reliable, secure, and scalable. This remote role focuses on platform administration, integration, and collaboration with engineering and security teams.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical administrator across IRC enterprise AI environments, managing user access, API keys, and workspace configurations.
• Monitor system health, usage patterns, and API performance, troubleshooting issues and maintaining observability.
• Coordinate integrations with DevOps, software engineering, and data engineering teams, developing scripts and connectors in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Track AI resource utilization, optimize costs, and act as liaison with InfoSec for security and compliance.
• Document configuration changes, deployment procedures, and maintain runbooks for AI platforms.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience administering enterprise AI platforms such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Azure OpenAI.
• Proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript for scripting and automation.
• Experience building and maintaining REST API integrations and working with version control (Git).
• Familiarity with monitoring distributed SaaS systems and managing production reliability.

Required skills

• Python
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• REST API development
• Git
• Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI platforms
• Vector databases and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) patterns
• Databricks or comparable ML platforms
• Monitoring and alerting tools