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You will work across AI, software, infrastructure, and security layers to turn complex deployment requirements into reliable, reusable product capabilities. \nThe Impact \nYour work will help customers run mission-critical AI closer to their data and users, including in environments with limited connectivity, strict security requirements, and constrained hardware. You will shape the product architecture, developer experience, and operational foundations that make AI deployments repeatable, secure, observable, and easy to manage at scale. \nDuties and Responsibilities \nDesign and build core capabilities of SeekrFlow Edge Builder for packaging, configuring, deploying, and operating AI solutions at the edge.\nDevelop workflows that assemble models, agents, data pipelines, APIs, and supporting services into repeatable edge deployments.\nBuild abstractions and tooling for deploying AI workloads across cloud, on-premises, edge, disconnected, and air-gapped environments.\nImplement model and service lifecycle capabilities, including versioning, configuration, validation, upgrades, rollback, and compatibility management.\nDevelop infrastructure and orchestration components for containers, Kubernetes, local inference, hardware accelerators, storage, and networking.\nBuild optimization features that account for device capabilities, CPU/GPU availability, memory, storage, bandwidth, power, and latency constraints.\nIntegrate model-serving runtimes, data connectors, APIs, observability components, security controls, and enterprise systems into the platform.\nCreate automated preflight checks, deployment validation, health monitoring, diagnostics, and recovery workflows.\nBuild secure-by-default platform capabilities, including identity, access control, secrets management, encryption, audit logging, and software supply-chain protections.\nDevelop testing frameworks for functional correctness, deployment compatibility, performance, reliability, and AI model behavior.\nDesign APIs, configuration schemas, user workflows, and developer interfaces that make complex edge deployments simple and repeatable.\nTroubleshoot and improve platform behavior across models, runtimes, containers, operating systems, hardware, networking, and customer environments.\nCollaborate with ML, platform, security, product, and customer engineering teams to turn deployment challenges into scalable product capabilities.\nProduce technical documentation, reference architectures, runbooks, and implementation guidance for Edge Builder users and internal teams. \nQualifications and Skills Required \nExperience building production AI/ML platforms, MLOps systems, developer tools, or deployment infrastructure.\nStrong Python, Go, or similar software-development skills.\nExperience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, APIs, networking, and infrastructure-as-code.\nUnderstanding of model serving, inference runtimes, quantization, batching, hardware acceleration, and resource-constrained environments.\nExperience with model formats or runtimes such as ONNX, TensorRT, PyTorch, Triton, vLLM, or similar technologies.\nExperience designing configuration-driven systems, deployment workflows, platform APIs, or orchestration tools.\nKnowledge of secure software development, identity and access management, secrets, encryption, auditability, and supply-chain security.\nFamiliarity with edge, on-premises, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments.\nStrong systems-thinking and troubleshooting skills across application, platform, infrastructure, and AI layers.\nExperience building automated testing, observability, diagnostics, and reliability capabilities into platform products. \nAbout the Company: \nSeekr is a leader in explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence designed to power mission-critical decisions in enterprises, government, and regulated industries. SeekrFlow™, our end-to-end AI platform, provides secure, auditable AI solutions tailored to sectors where transparency, accuracy, and compliance are paramount. Available across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, SeekrFlow reduces bias, strengthens data integrity, and simplifies model oversight so organizations can rely on trusted AI decisions in high-stakes settings that impact society’s most sensitive and vital systems. Trusted by leading enterprises and government agencies, we partner with defense, finance, telecom, and critical infrastructure leaders to enable AI solutions that drive real-world results with unmatched transparency and control. We are a team of strategic thinkers and problem-solvers tackling the toughest challenges facing critical infrastructure and global enterprises through best-in-class AI models and customer deployment. Our team operates with unwavering commitment to our core values and mission:\nWe are driven by outcomes-our customers' success is what we strive for every day.\nWe believe trust is earned, which is why we build explainability and transparency into the entire AI lifecycle.\nWe take our responsibility to deliver secure AI seriously.\nWe believe innovation drives progress-we are building the technologies that power the systems our society depends on.\nCompany Benefits:\nMeaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter. \nEquity Ownership - RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long-term success and growth.\n\nTime Off That Respects Real Life - Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge. \nWork Your Way - A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX.\n\nCompetitive Total Rewards - A role-appropriate compensation structure that supports long-term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.\n\n 401(k) with Company Match - Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching. \nComprehensive Health & Wellness - Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one-for you and your family. \nParental Leave - Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.\n\nImportant Notice: \nTo conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.\nSeekr is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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