Staff AI Platform Engineer

The role

You will build the shared foundation for AI at Life360, including model access, agent orchestration, and memory infrastructure. You will own production components end to end and set technical direction for the AI platform.

What you will do

• Establish the overarching vision and paved paths for AI-native engineering best practices
• Build the agent runtime and orchestration platform
• Operate the MCP gateway and connector infrastructure
• Support the LLM gateway including model access, routing, and cost attribution
• Build eval and regression infrastructure
• Setup observability for prompt and response tracing and cost
• Work with Security, Privacy, and Legal to build data handling and auditability
• Define how product teams access, run, and monitor AI inference in production
• Own production components including SLOs, dashboards, and incident response
• Enable memory, retrieval, and knowledge infrastructure

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years building platforms or infrastructure used by other engineers
• Experience building and operating production AI systems, such as agentic workflows, LLM integrations, retrieval, and evaluation
• Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration
• Strong backend and cloud fundamentals: distributed systems, APIs, infrastructure as code, and reliability and observability practices
• Experience running AI inference in production
• Clear written communication

Nice to have

• Experience with non-human identity, service-account, or agent authZ models
• Experience building or operating an agent orchestration or deployment platform, or an MCP-style connector gateway
• Familiarity with SOC 2, GDPR, or similar compliance frameworks
• Background in ML infrastructure or model observability
• Experience with consumer-scale products or privacy-sensitive data

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible PTO
• Companywide holidays throughout the year plus summer and winter shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers

Before you apply

• AI tool usage during interviews varies by role
• You may be asked to demonstrate proficiency with AI tools, discuss how you leverage AI, or complete interview exercises without AI assistance
• Undisclosed use of AI not previously discussed with or approved by your Recruiter may impact your candidacy

About the company

Life360 is a Remote-First company with more than 500 remote-first employees. Its mission is to keep people close to the ones they love through mobile apps and tracking devices.