Senior Platform Engineer, AI

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it. OUR MISSION True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority.

S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground. OUR VALUES Be the offset.

We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity. What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.

It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together. YOUR MISSION At True Anomaly, we’re building the next generation of space defense.

AI-assisted work is the biggest force multiplier available to a company at True Anomaly's stage. It accelerates how we build, how we deliver, and how we scale. We are investing in AI as a core operating capability, not a side experiment, and this role exists to help make that investment real.

As a Senior AI Platform Engineer, you will be one of the first hires to build the infrastructure, tooling, and integrations that put AI directly into the hands and workflows of every team across the company. This is not a research role. It is a building role.

You will ship capabilities that engineers, program managers, operators, and business teams use every day to move faster and produce better work. The scope is broad by design. Your work will range from building connectors between AI models and internal systems, developing custom applications for a specific business workflow, and more.

You will contribute to platform-level technical decisions about AI providers, tools, and architectures. You will also help build and deliver AI training and enablement for the company, including office hours, brown bags, and hands-on resources. The platform engineering org, reporting to the Chief Security Officer, will work across the enterprise, from engineering and product to marketing and finance.

You will have meaningful autonomy, visibility to executive leadership, and the opportunity to shape how a fast-growing defense technology company operates with AI.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Build and maintain AI platform infrastructure: API integrations, model access pipelines, system connectors (MCP, tool use), and on-premises compute environments as needed Develop custom AI-powered applications, workflows, and integrations that connect frontier models to internal systems such as project management, documentation, communications, and operational tools Contribute to technical evaluation and selection of AI providers, tools, and platforms, helping inform build-vs-buy decisions based on capability, compliance

Requirements

, and speed to value Help design and deliver AI training and enablement programs for the company, including hands-on workshops, office hours, documentation, and shared resources that build real fluency across teams Partner with engineering, security, and IT teams to ensure AI deployments meet government security and compliance

across data classification levels Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape and surface new models, tools, and capabilities that could accelerate the company

QUALIFICATIONS

Typically 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or cloud engineering experience building and shipping production systems, with demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver complex projects with minimal guidance Software engineering or similar background with experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages common in AI/ML tooling Experience using the latest AI powered development tools to deliver production code and automate routine tasks. You can read, write, and understand code in common programming languages like Python, Typescript, Java, etc.