AI Platform Engineer in Austin, Texas at Aalo Atomics

About Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

About the role

We’re hiring an AI Platform Engineer to maintain, evolve, and continuously improve the horizontal systems that make AI usable, secure, and scalable across the company.

At Aalo, AI is becoming part of the operating system of the company. This role focuses on the horizontal foundation: shared gateways, orchestration, observability, security boundaries, deployment patterns, and platform architecture that let many AI solutions be built safely on top.

This role sits at the center of every AI system we deploy.

You will work as part of a small, highly collaborative AI team maintaining and evolving an existing internal platform that powers AI across the company.

Your job is to maintain, harden, and evolve the shared substrate that other engineers and agents build on top of.

This is a software and platform engineering role with strong architecture, security, controls, integration, infrastructure, and operational governance responsibilities.

Examples of the platform systems and capabilities this role may touch include:

AI model gateways, routing, token management, model lifecycle administration, and cost controlsAgent harnesses, shared skills, tool orchestration, and execution runtimesObservability, evaluation, feedback, and audit trails for AI-generated outputsIdentity, access control, data boundaries, and secure enterprise authenticationShared integration layers across manufacturing, engineering, finance, HR, logistics, and document systemsDeployment infrastructure, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code for AI servicesInternal APIs, reusable services, admin tooling, and operational control planes for AI systemsWorkflow orchestration, browser automation, and background job execution systemsPlatform patterns for regulated, high-reliability, and mission-critical AI applications

Common technology categories and platform patterns in the stack include:

Backend application developmentInternal web applications and admin interfacesRelational and document-oriented databasesAPIs and service-oriented backend systemsFrontend and internal admin web application frameworksContainers, CI/CD, and infrastructure as codeCloud platforms, secure storage, identity, and secrets managementModel providers, gateways, access control, and policy enforcementAI coding agents, agent harnesses, orchestration frameworks, and shared toolingObservability, evaluation, telemetry, security controls, and feedback systemsWhat you'll doMaintain, evolve, and continuously improve platform architecture, service boundaries, and reusable primitives for AI systemsBuild and harden gateways, orchestration layers, shared tools, and integration frameworksImplement deployment patterns, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure best practices that keep AI systems reliable at scaleReview, debug, and refine AI-generated code in mission-critical and shared systemsBuild observability, evaluation, feedback, and usage telemetry systems that let AI solutions be measured, audited, and continuously improvedEstablish security boundaries, data access patterns, controls, policy guardrails, and auditability for internal AI systemsWork closely with solutions engineers and other stakeholders to enable reusable platform capabilities that compound in value over timeQualifications

Strong engineering fundamentals

You can design platform systems with clear APIs, service boundaries, data models, and integration patternsYou write clear, maintainable code and have strong judgment around reliability, security, and operational qualityYou know when to move carefully on shared or mission-critical systems and when to avoid unnecessary complexity

High output and follow-through

You are comfortable taking ambiguous platform needs and turning them into maintainable systemsYou handle integrations, operational issues, and platform hardening without losing momentumYou care about building durable systems that enable many downstream solutions

AI-native working style

You already use AI coding agents or agentic development workflows as part of your daily engineering processYou have demonstrated interest in AI through real projects, experiments, evaluations, or sustained use of new models and toolsYou can evaluate and refine AI-generated code and reason about how harnesses, tools, and workflows should be structuredYou think in terms of leverage, evaluation loops, and multiplier effects across the platform

Team-first mindset

You are comfortable building shared systems and enabling other engineers through reusable patterns and capabilitiesYou collaborate closely and communicate clearly across engineering, security, and operational contextsYou optimize for platform quality, long-term maintainability, and collective progress

Interest in where this is going

You are excited by the idea that software engineering is shifting toward higher-level system design, supervision, and evaluationYou want to build the infrastructure that makes AI workflows safe, scalable, and reusable across the companyYou are comfortable working in a role that will evolve as the system becomes more capable

Nice to Have

Experience with internal developer platforms, API gateways, control planes, or multi-tenant systemsExperience working in regulated, high-reliability, or compliance-sensitive environmentsBackground in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, security, controls, or operational softwareExposure to AI-driven workflows, evaluation systems, or agent-based platforms

Requirements

Based in the United StatesWilling to work on-site in Austin, TX

What we Offer

Competitive salary starting at $160,000Health, Dental, Vision InsurancePaid Time OffCorporate Gym Membership

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.