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You'll work closely with architects, security teams, cloud-ops/infrastructure teams, and AI engineers to ensure the platform is secure, reliable, cost-effective, and easy to use.\nThis is a senior technical leadership position. You'll help set engineering standards, guide technical decisions, review critical designs, and support the growth of the engineering team while remaining hands-on where it adds the most value.\nWe're looking for someone with a strong engineering and platform background who has experience building, delivering, or operating AI solutions in a production environment. While AI experience is important, we recognize that technology is moving quickly and very few people have worked across every area of modern AI platforms. For the right candidate, we're happy to support development in areas where experience may be lighter, particularly as our own AI capabilities continue to grow.\nHere at Waters, we look for people who enjoy solving difficult technical problems, work well with others, and focus on delivering outcomes rather than simply delivering technology.\nResponsibilities\nLead the engineering team responsible for the AI platform and its supporting services.\nOwn the reliability, security, scalability, and operational health of the platform\nTranslate architectural direction into maintainable and supportable engineering solutions\nImplement and operationalize engineering standards through automated testing and quality gates, deployment tooling, and operational readiness practices\nLead cloud platform, CI/CD, and deployment practices for AI workloads\nDefine and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability standards across the platform\nPartner with security, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards\nBalance business priorities, platform improvements, operational stability, and technical debt when planning platform delivery\nProvide mentoring, coaching, and technical leadership to platform engineers\nImprove the developer experience for the AI engineering teams who build agents and AI solutions on the platform; providing reusable services, templates, frameworks, and documentation for them to build on\nReview high-risk technical changes and provide guidance on complex engineering decisions\nEvaluate new technologies and platform capabilities that could improve security, reliability, productivity, or scalability\nPromote knowledge sharing and engineering best practice across the AI CoE\nQualifications\n8yrs + experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, machine learning engineering, or a related technical discipline\nDemonstrated experience providing technical leadership for enterprise platforms, distributed systems, or cloud-native solutions\nExperience building, supporting, or operating AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions in production environments\nStrong understanding of modern software engineering principles, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native development\nExperience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP experience also welcomed)\nExperience with Infrastructure-as-Code approaches, containerisation, and modern deployment practices\nExperience implementing CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and operational practices for enterprise applications or AI-enabled solutions\nUnderstanding of AI platform components such as vector databases, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, model serving, or related technologies\nFamiliarity with agentic AI, AI orchestration frameworks, or emerging AI platform capabilities would be beneficial\nExperience establishing engineering standards, governance practices, and operational processes\nExperience in platform security, access management, risk management, cost and operational governance\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, business, and security teams\nExperience mentoring engineers and helping technical teams grow and succeed\nInterested, but don't tick every box?\nWe're looking for experienced engineering leaders who have successfully built, operated, or supported AI solutions in production environments. We don't expect candidates to have worked with every tool, platform, framework, or architectural pattern listed in this description. If you have a strong background in software, cloud, platform, or machine learning engineering and can demonstrate experience delivering AI-enabled solutions, we'd encourage you to apply. We are committed to helping the successful candidate continue to develop their skills as our AI platform, tooling, and operating model mature.\nCompany Description\nWaters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.\n Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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