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Staff AI Platform Engineer: Agent & Retrieval Infrastructure

Bedrock Ocean Exploration · Remote · Remote

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About Bedrock Ocean Exploration

Bedrock Ocean Exploration is a platform for underwater vehicles. Their technology allows for the collection of seafloor data and makes ocean mapping safer, with minimal environmental impact, risk of endangered animal takes, and infrastructure damage. Backed by Eniac Ventures.

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to lead our AI architecture. This role goes beyond building agents on existing platforms; you will create the infrastructure itself, including the orchestration layer, the data and retrieval pipeline, and the security model required to work with production data. You will also build the tools and abstractions that allow our engineering team to implement AI features independently.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years in software and infrastructure engineering, including deep production backend experience (Python or TypeScript preferred, Go fine) and staff-level ownership of technical direction
  • Hands-on experience standing up Amazon Bedrock in production: agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, model access, and the throughput and quota decisions that come with them
  • Containerized service deployment on ECS, EKS, or Lambda, with CI/CD you have owned rather than inherited. The models are managed, but the backend APIs, tool endpoints, and ingestion jobs still run somewhere real
  • Practical RAG and vector search experience: embeddings, chunking strategies, semantic search quality, and operating a managed vector database (OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, pgvector, or similar) at production scale and cost
  • Real data engineering: you have built or substantially extended ingestion pipelines over messy, heterogeneous, unstructured sources, and you think about freshness and correctness as SLAs rather than afterthoughts
  • Strong AWS ecosystem expertise: IAM roles and least privilege for machine identities, VPC networking and PrivateLink, Lambda, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, and provisioning safely through infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation)
More about this role

Bedrock Ocean builds and operates autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that collect georeferenced ocean-floor data at commercial scale. We deliver bathymetric and imagery data products to customers through our own platform, and we're scaling toward continuous, around-the-clock data collection campaigns spanning months at a time.

We are building AI agents on Amazon Bedrock to support our ocean data, internal operations, and customer platform. This role owns that architecture.

(One note on names. Amazon Bedrock is the AWS service. Bedrock Ocean is us. They are unrelated, and we are aware it is confusing.)

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to lead our AI architecture. This role goes beyond building agents on existing platforms; you will create the infrastructure itself, including the orchestration layer, the data and retrieval pipeline, and the security model required to work with production data. You will also build the tools and abstractions that allow our engineering team to implement AI features independently.

This position combines software engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure operations. You will manage the full lifecycle of our Amazon Bedrock...

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