# Platform Engineer (Forward Deployment) at Lightning AI

- Company: Lightning AI
- What the company does: From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://lightning.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle,...
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai/jobs/7742081003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightning-ai-platform-engineer-forward-deployment/

## About the role

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to partner directly with Lightning customers to architect, build, and deploy production AI systems. Working alongside customer engineering teams, you'll solve complex technical challenges across inference infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, and AI workflows—building reliable, observable systems that perform at scale.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering experience building production full-stack applications, including modern frontend frameworks such as React and TypeScript, and backend services in Python, Go, or similar programming languages
- Experience working directly with customers in highly technical environments, such as Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Applied AI Engineering, Technical Product Engineering, or related roles
- Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and the lifecycle of model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Experience deploying and operating production AI/ML systems in cloud or distributed environments
- Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, model serving systems, or distributed inference workloads
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially when working through complex technical topics with customers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders

Tags: Product Engineering