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You'll work across technical teams and the business to embed AI into existing workflows and infrastructure, building solutions with measurable, lasting impact.\nThis role sits at the intersection of engineering and the business. If you thrive on taking emerging AI capability and making it work in practice, this is the role for you.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn and operate the backend architecture of Perforce Prism, our internal AI platform. You are the technical owner of the platform's core infrastructure - including AI standard protocols and the AI services layer. You are accountable for reliability, observability, and performance in production, end to end. You'll partner closely with the teams owning MongoDB and ETL/orchestration infrastructure to ensure the platform's data and pipeline dependencies scale with it. \nLead the technical development strategy for Prism. Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure AI platform designs. 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