Guardian

Guardian

Head of AI Platform Engineering - Execution Plane

New York · Full-time

No sponsorship$152k-$250kDetected 14 days ago
Distributed SystemsDynamoDBVector DatabasesAWSCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringRESTMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGAgentic AILLMOpsMLOpsAI OrchestrationIncident ResponsePerformance ManagementIntellectual PropertyLoad TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • About Guardian: Every day, Guardian provides Americans the security they deserve through our insurance and wealth management products and services.
  • Our commitments rest on a strong financial foundation, which at year-end 2018 included $8.5 billion in capital and $1.6 billion in operating income.
  • For more information, please visit guardianlife.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.

Responsibilities

  • You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and technology partners to develop and integrate automation solutions that drive business growth, improve customer experiences, and reduce operational costs.
  • At Guardian, you'll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
  • Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, management or a related field.
  • Experience leading teams responsible for the execution layer of a platform, including runtime services, model inference, retrieval, orchestration, tool invocation, workflow execution, or production AI operations.
  • Strong understanding of data access patterns, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector/search systems, context engineering, and governed access to systems of record.
  • Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to simplify complex runtime, data, and AI execution topics for senior stakeholders while aligning teams around reusable platform patterns.
  • Experience with agentic AI systems, LLM platforms, model gateways, agent runtimes, tool/action gateways, MCP servers, orchestration frameworks, or AI execution engines.
  • Experience with AWS-based AI execution services and cloud-native patterns, including Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, EKS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and related DevOps tooling.
  • Familiarity with RAG systems, enterprise search, vector databases, embedding models, rerankers, knowledge bases, context engineering, and governed retrieval from enterprise data sources.
  • Experience designing multi-tenant runtime platforms with environment isolation, workload identities, RBAC/ABAC, cross-account access patterns, quotas, throttling, and secure service-to-service communication.
  • Experience with observability for AI workloads, including distributed tracing, token usage, latency, model/tool errors, cost attribution, quality metrics, safety metrics, and operational dashboards.
  • Experience with performance, scalability, and cost optimization for high-volume runtime services, including caching, batching, streaming, load testing, capacity planning, and GPU/CPU optimization where applicable.

Compensation

  • $152,290.00 - $250,195.00
  • The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position.
  • The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate.
  • In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Benefits

  • Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
  • Excellent medical, dental, supplemental health, life and vision coverage for you and your dependents with no wait period
  • Life and disability insurance

Company info

  • Guardian is an equal opportunity employer.
  • All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
  • Guardian® is a registered trademark of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America.
  • application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools ("AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.

Equal opportunity

  • Accommodations
  • Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
  • Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
  • If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
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