AI Platform Engineer

Santa Barbara, CA · Remote considered

About Carpe

At Carpe, we build AI-native products for P&C insurers that turn complex information into clearer insights, smarter workflows, and better decisions. With deep industry expertise and a belief that insurance technology can work much better, we’re building tools that help insurance teams move faster, work smarter, and make a greater impact in protecting the people and businesses they serve.

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About the Position

Carpe Data is building a company-wide agentic operating capability. We currently run more than ten persistent AI agents that support our builders and help create and deploy products. Our next step is to turn the infrastructure behind those agents into a reliable, repeatable platform.

We are looking for an AI Platform Engineer to join the team that owns this work. You will report to our VP, AI Platform Engineering. You will help create the golden path for provisioning, configuring, deploying, upgrading, observing, debugging, and recovering persistent agents and the applications they build. Our Goal: faster autonomous deployment, higher uptime, and tighter centralized controls. Instead of relying on human code review, we build trust into the system through automated tests, policy checks, staged rollouts, rollback, audit trails, and production verification, and you'll help build that system.

This is not a conventional systems administration role, an MLOps research role, or a job focused only on AI coding assistants. We want a hands-on builder who has operated a persistent agent or multi-agent harness in the cloud, using OpenClaw, Hermes, another framework, or a system you built yourself.

Responsibilities

Design and implement the golden path for creating, configuring, deploying, upgrading, observing, and recovering persistent AI agents and the applications they build.
Own the AWS infrastructure and application environments that agents use to build, test, and ship software.
Shorten the path from builder intent to a safely verified production deployment, with automated tests, policy checks, staged rollouts, rollback mechanisms, audit trails, and production verification.
Own diagnosis and mitigation when the agent platform or its delivery systems aren't working as expected. You'll follow a problem across the harness, permissions, runtime, integrations, credentials, IAM, CI/CD, containers, networking, Terraform, and the AWS environment until it's resolved.
Standardize configuration and remove fragile one-off processes and unnecessary manual intervention.
Improve fleet-level availability, observability, recovery, and configuration consistency.
Evaluate emerging agent frameworks and infrastructure approaches, continuously test our platform choices against Carpe's vision, and recommend when to adopt, integrate, or replace them.
Document an operating model that builders can use without needing to become infrastructure specialists.

Requirements

Core Skills:
- A persistent, cloud-hosted agentic system that you can demonstrate and explain in detail.
- Strong Linux and systems debugging instincts.
- Practical experience with AWS, containers, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability.
- Strong Python or TypeScript ability.
- Experience designing secure APIs, integrations, credential flows, and access boundaries.
- Sound judgment about safe automation, verification, rollback, and production risk.
- Curiosity and learning velocity in a rapidly changing ecosystem.
- Clear communication with both technical teammates and AI agents.
- Passion for AI and where it is headed, shown through personal projects and a habit of keeping up as the field changes.

Nice to Have

Experience with additional AI frameworks and tools.

We Offer

You'll be a core player at a small company where every employee makes an impact.
You'll learn AI by building with it. We're redesigning how we work as a Human x AI company across every team. We learn together, including regular sessions where people show what they built, what worked, and what broke.
Your work shows up fast. At our size, what you build quickly makes an impact.
Growth: We have a clear growth framework with defined levels and competencies, so you always know what's expected and what "next" looks like.
Collaboration: Work with teams in every corner of the company.
We Live our Values: Be Bold, Be Creative - Lead with Empathy - Act Like an Owner
Flexible working hours and flexible vacation policy
100% Carpe Paid Health, dental, and life insurance (Additional benefits at Employee expense)
Full-time permanent positions are eligible for the Carpe Data Bonus Plan.
401k with company matching

Location

We are headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA but are open to filling this as a remote position.

Salary Range

$135,000 - 160,000. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.

To apply for this role, send your resume and a brief statement about your candidacy to our People team.

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