# Founding AI Platform Engineer (MLOps / Backend)

The role: We are hiring a Founding AI Platform Engineer to own the systems that make the company's ML and GenAI products reliable, deployable, observable, and scalable. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, infrastructure, MLOps, and product delivery. You will build the production layer around training, evaluation, deployment, serving, CI/CD, experimentation, and monitoring. In a team of the company size, this role spans backend services, infrastructure, tooling, and reliability work. Your job is to make sure promising ML and GenAI capabilities become stable, customer-ready systems. About the company: Whizdom AI is an early-stage AI startup building products around recommendation systems, personalisation, and GenAI agents. The company is a small team working directly on real customer problems, shipping quickly, measuring outcomes, and iterating fast. Everyone here is expected to take ownership, improve systems proactively, and help build the engineering foundations the company will scale on.

- **Id**: 4141046
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/next-challenge-founding-ai-platform-engineer-mlops-backend>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Yerevan, Armenia
- **Countries**: AM
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T05:23:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T05:23:53Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1027
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4430494
- **Name**: Next Challenge
- **Domain**: nextchallenge.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/next-challenge>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Listed via**: staff.am

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T05:23:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T07:56:52Z

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