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ALO · 6 hours ago

Lead Data & AI Platform Engineer

ALO is a company focused on mindful movement and better living. They are seeking a Lead Data & AI Platform Engineer to architect and evolve foundational platforms for data science and AI, ensuring reliability and scalability in production-grade systems.

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Responsibilities

Architect and own the Data & AI platform—covering ingestion, feature pipelines, model development, LLM orchestration, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
Design scalable GenAI and agentic architectures, including RAG pipelines, tool-using agents, multimodal systems, and hybrid ML + LLM solutions
Establish platform standards for experimentation, model evaluation, versioning, CI/CD, and production readiness across teams
Enable fast, safe innovation by creating reusable components, SDKs, templates, and internal tooling for data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams
Drive build vs. buy decisions for AI platforms, cloud services, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks with a strong cost, scalability, and flexibility lens
Partner closely with Data Science, Engineering, Product, and Analytics leaders to translate business needs into durable platform capabilities
Embed responsible AI practices into platform design—privacy, security, auditability, and human-in-the-loop evaluation
Act as a technical north star—reviewing designs, unblocking complex problems, and mentoring senior engineers across the org
A Lead engineer who thinks in systems, not just solutions
Equally comfortable designing architecture, writing production code, and reviewing others’ designs
Deeply pragmatic—you care about elegance, but you care more about reliability, adoption, and impact
Someone who has taken AI systems from research or prototype to real users at scale and learned the hard lessons

Qualification

Cloud-native architecturesData pipelinesAI / ML / GenAISoftware engineeringKubernetesDockerCI/CDVector databasesFeature storesWorkflow orchestrationModel lifecycle managementMonitoringExperimentationHuman-in-the-loop systemsA/B testingNLPMultimodal systemsRetail experienceDigital products experienceSupply chain experienceCustomer-facing AI systems

Required

Cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
Vector databases, feature stores, workflow orchestration
Data pipelines, model lifecycle management, monitoring, experimentation
Offline and online evaluation, A/B testing, human-in-the-loop systems
LLMs, RAG systems, agentic frameworks, prompt and model evaluation
Build ecosystem for fine-tuning, hybrid ML + LLM architectures, NLP, multimodal systems
10+ years of experience across data engineering, ML/AI engineering, or platform engineering
Proven ownership of large-scale, production AI platforms used by multiple teams or products
Strong foundation in software engineering (Python-centric, APIs, microservices, distributed systems)
Experience supporting consumer-scale or enterprise-scale AI products
Prior work on AI Centers of Excellence or shared AI platforms
Background in retail, digital products, supply chain, or customer-facing AI systems

Benefits

Performance bonuses
Long term incentives
A PTO policy
Many other progressive benefits

Company

We are ALO.

H1B Sponsorship

ALO has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (22)
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2023 (4)
2022 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Andrew Holland
General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer
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Brittney Bohnert
Community & Partnerships Manager
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