Senior AI Platform Engineer
First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
About Platned
Platned is a rapidly expanding Enterprise Services company headquartered in the UK with a growing global presence. We are business transformation specialists, helping organisations maximise their investment in the world-class IFS product suite through comprehensive implementation, consultancy, and managed services. This role sits in our product team, building enterprise AI solutions used across a range of business systems.
Role Overview
We are a growing product team building enterprise AI solutions for businesses that run complex operations. We are looking for a senior engineer to design and build the core services that allow AI agents to run reliably, securely and at scale. You will join a small, experienced team where your decisions shape the foundations of the product.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build the services that run AI agents in production, including orchestration, tool execution, memory and long running workflows.
- Build secure, reusable integrations between AI agents and enterprise business systems.
- Implement identity, permissions, audit trails and data isolation for multi-customer environments.
- Set up tracing, evaluation, automated testing and monitoring so the team can measure quality, cost and speed with every release.
- Help shape engineering standards and mentor developers in the team.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- 5 or more years in backend, platform or distributed systems engineering.
- At least 1.5 years building and running AI agent or LLM-based systems in production.
- Strong Python skills.
- Hands-on experience with at least one AI agent framework or SDK.
- Experience building guardrails, approval steps and safe controls for agents that act on business data.
- Experience with cloud platforms, containers and event-driven architecture.
- Solid understanding of API design, authentication and secure system design.
- Hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or GitHub Copilot in daily engineering work.
- Good judgement on where AI adds value and where a simpler approach works better.
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly to product and business teams.
Nice To Have
- Experience with agent interoperability standards and tool protocols.
- Experience with durable workflow engines.
- Integration experience with ERP, CRM or field service systems.
- Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Contributions to open source AI tooling.
What We Offer
- High-Growth Environment: Join a company scaling rapidly across global markets.
- Your Focus: Ownership of a core part of the product at an early, high-impact stage
- Competitive Package: Attractive salary & benefits.
- Career Development: Dedicated time and budget for learning, AI tools and conferences
How to Apply
If you are a dedicated Senior AI Platform Engineer ready to make a meaningful impact in a high-growth global company, we would love to hear from you.
Submit your CV with a short note (up to 200 words) about an AI system you helped put into production: what it did, one thing that went wrong, and how you resolved it.
Due to our continued success and rapid growth, interviews will be conducted promptly and decisions made within a short timeframe.