Lead Engineer, Platform Engineering - AI
Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc. · Atlanta, GA, US
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About the Role
The AI Platform Engineering Lead drives the AI Platform Operations team, guiding platform strategy, governance, and stakeholder engagement. They align technical execution with business goals, ensuring cost-effective, secure, and scalable AI/ML solutions. The lead defines the architecture, standards, and governance across AI/ML infrastructure, workflow automation, and agentic AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Define platform strategy, roadmap, and capability evolution
- Establish governance frameworks, policies, and exception processes
- Manage team budget, CapEx planning, and vendor relationships
- Build and lead the AI Platform Operations team
- Define the architecture, standards, and governance for AI/ML infrastructure, including GPU cluster design, compute resource planning, security controls, and observability across the platform
- Drive the strategy, standards, and governance for AI-enabled workflow automation across LLM, MCP, and agentic capabilities, ensuring the platform scales securely and operates with consistency across the enterprise
- Define the architecture and design standards for vector store infrastructure supporting RAG pipelines, agent memory, and semantic search across the enterprise
- Establish design patterns and best practices for RAG workflow implementation, including ingestion strategies, chunking approaches, embedding model selection, and retrieval optimization
- Architect agent memory frameworks, defining standards for short-term context, long-term persistent memory, and episodic memory patterns across AI platform workloads
- Drive the architecture and governance of Agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration design and tool-use pipeline standards
- Define the strategy and architecture for hosting and managing MCP servers across the platform, including deployment topology, security boundaries, and integration standards
- Establish governance frameworks and policies for MCP server lifecycle management, versioning, and access control
- Evaluate and select MCP server tooling and vendors; manage relationships and roadmap alignment
- Serve as executive liaison for platform matters
- Own major incident management and executive communication
- Drive continuous improvement and platform maturity initiatives
- Align platform capabilities with enterprise architecture standards
- Respond to and assist in production operations in a 24/7 environment
- Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
- Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, and end-users
- Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
Requirements
- 8+ years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- 3+ years in technical leadership or management positions
- 1+ years hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production
- Direct experience with GPU infrastructure (NVIDIA preferred)
- 2+ years experience using CUDA
- 1+ years experience using MCPs
- 2+ years experience with vector databases and embedding infrastructure
- 2+ years experience with RAG pipeline design and deployment
- 2+ years experience with agent memory patterns (in-context, external stores, retrieval-augmented memory)
- 1+ years experience with agentic AI systems using orchestration frameworks
- 2+ years experience with semantic search, embedding models, and ANN search techniques
- 3+ years working with workflow/orchestration automation tools
- Experience managing teams of 5+ technical staff
- Demonstrated success in vendor management and contract negotiation
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills
- Understanding of AI/ML workloads and infrastructure requirements
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability tools
- Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
- Project Management, organization, and time management
- Customer focused, and dedicated to the best possible user experience
- Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources
- Fluent speaking, reading, and writing in English
Skills
- Kubernetes
- GPU infrastructure
- NVIDIA
- CUDA
- MCPs
- Vector databases
- Embedding infrastructure
- RAG pipeline design
- Agent memory patterns
- Agentic AI systems
- Orchestration frameworks
- Semantic search
- Embedding models
- ANN search techniques
- Workflow automation tools
- Enterprise monitoring tools
- Observability tools
Location
- Illinois
- New York
- California
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 8+ years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering roles
- 3+ years in technical leadership or management positions
Education Level
- Bachelors Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering / Development
Salary/Compensations
- Illinois Base Salary Range: $133,900 - 154,500 USD
- New York Base Salary Range: $149,400 - 180,000 USD
- California Base Salary Range: $149,400 - 180,000 USD
Benefits
- healthcare coverage (medical, dental and vision)
- a 401(k) plan
- life insurance
- time off
- paid leave for qualifying circumstances
About the Company
- We are on a mission as a team. We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities.
- Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible, and moving fast.
- We take ownership and make decisions.
- We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business.
- We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team.
- We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better.
- We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders.
- Every day we work toward transforming global markets.