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practices for AI system monitoring, observability, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and service-level objectives (SLOs). \nMentor and lead junior engineers in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, operational decision-making, and incident response. \nDrive post-incident reviews focused on learning, continuous improvement, and long-term corrective actions. \nDevelop operational processes that ensure AI solutions remain secure, scalable, performant, and reliable for business-critical use cases. \nPartner with product, infrastructure, security, and support teams to proactively identify operational risks and continuously improve service reliability. \nMentorship & Thought Leadership\nMentor AI and ML engineers within the team. \nFoster a culture of technical excellence and operational ownership where engineers are accountable not only for building systems, but also for running and supporting them successfully in production. \nRepresent our team as a thought leader in scalable AI deployment, operational excellence, and responsible AI practices. \nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, AI engineering, or related technical disciplines. \nDeep expertise designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale AI and ML systems in production environments. \nDemonstrated success leading complex technical initiatives from concept through deployment and ongoing operations. \nStrong knowledge of software architecture, reliability engineering, observability, ML Ops, DevOps, and cloud technologies. \nProven ability to mentor engineers and lead teams through highly complex technical and operational challenges. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with foundation models, Large Language Models, and agentic AI architectures. \nExperience deploying agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows. \nExperience with Trustworthy AI, Responsible AI, AI governance, or model risk management frameworks. \nExperience 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