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Our culture is about aspiration, embracing change and challenges, listening to (and learning from) each other, encouraging continual learning, and inspiring collective growth. As an inclusive, integrated architecture and engineering practice, we value the diversity of perspectives, experiences, abilities, and expertise that advance both the work we do, and the world we share.\nPosition Summary\nYou own the operational foundations that make AI safe and maintainable-connectors into the Bronze layer, versioned interfaces, logging and auditability, evaluation, cost controls, and guardrails. This is an engineering role focused on reliability and lifecycle thinking, not a “light automation” position. 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