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As a Product Operations Engineer, Government Applications Special Programs, you will join a team focused on operating and deploying AI capabilities, including models, APIs, tools, and integrations for U.S. federal agencies. You will be responsible for the health, performance, and stability of services powering these missions by managing the full end-to-end cycle of service reliability. Your daily work involves responding to outages, addressing technical debt in essential codebases, introducing observability into complex systems, and collaborating with agency stakeholders to prototype solutions based on real-world feedback. You will utilize Python, cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and API orchestration to manage integrations between frontier AI models and government data environments. The role specifically addresses the challenge of making advanced AI technologies useful for federal missions while maintaining high-uptime production systems in regulated environments.
Python
Large Language Models
Generative AI
Agentic Systems
AWS
GCP
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
API Orchestration
SDKs
open-source
AI Safety
Red-teaming
Software Engineering