Senior AI Platform Engineer Contract

Nextdata is looking for an experienced AI Platform Engineer for an initial three-month project focused on building and validating an AI-enabled data platform capability.

This is a hands-on implementation role. You will quickly ramp up on an existing project and build backend services, agent tools, APIs, and data integrations. The role has no customer-facing responsibilities and less emphasis on architecture than a principal-level position.

If successful, the project may continue and develop into a broader Nextdata product.

What You’ll Do

• Quickly understand the existing codebase, requirements, and technical direction.

• Build backend services, AI agents, tools, and APIs for governed data access.

• Implement MCP-compatible endpoints or similar agent interfaces.

• Integrate SQL, documents, APIs, metadata, semantic models, and vector search.

• Build retrieval, tool selection, context construction, and grounded response flows.

• Add access controls, policy enforcement, audit logging, tests, and observability.

• Deliver a reliable, documented system within the three-month project scope.