Role Overview
DDN is looking for an exceptional Senior Engineer to direct the Harness and Loop Engineering team within the Data Services Engineering organization. This remote opportunity is based out of North Carolina and suits a seasoned technical leader with extensive distributed systems experience.
Key Responsibilities
Direct the overall architecture, technical path, and implementation of the Harness and Loop Engineering platform.
Create AI-driven development environments, agentic engineering sandboxes, quality engineering systems, and inference orchestration setups.
Build engineering platforms that boost developer output while keeping strict standards for reliability, security, and correctness.
Take ownership of technical architecture and provide final design and code review authority for software changes generated by artificial intelligence.
Create evaluation frameworks, automated testing strategies, validation pipelines, and engineering guardrails for AI-aided software creation.
Work alongside the Foundation SDK team to evolve platform features and merge new technologies into production-ready offerings.
Transition internal engineering platforms into scalable, externally consumable products after successful internal testing.
Manage internal GPU hardware, inference services, and Infinia cluster operations that support AI development and testing.
Set engineering best practices for Loop Engineering, agentic workflows, and software delivery supported by artificial intelligence.
Coach and build up engineers across the enterprise by raising technical bars through guidance and mentorship.
Act as a core technical interviewer and help raise the hiring standards for engineering personnel.
Coordinate across software engineering, platform engineering, AI research, quality engineering, and product management teams.
Requirements
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
At least 12 years of software engineering experience featuring proven technical leadership in large-scale distributed systems.
Demonstrated background in designing and launching AI-assisted software development platforms or developer productivity tools.
Track record of applying artificial intelligence inside correctness-critical software systems, including guiding coding agents and automated quality systems.
Deep knowledge of machine learning infrastructure, large language model inference serving, and distributed AI systems.
Hands-on background building developer platforms, engineering tools, and software automation frameworks.
Experience working with agentic systems, inference orchestration, and AI workflow automation.
Direct experience supervising GPU clusters, AI compute infrastructure, or large distributed computing setups.
Solid grasp of software architecture, continuous integration and deployment pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
Demonstrated history of mentoring engineers and steering technical engineering initiatives.
Nice to Have
Background in productizing internal engineering platforms for external clients.
Familiarity with AI infrastructure management, model serving frameworks, and high-performance computing environments.
Experience handling large-scale observability, platform reliability, and engineering operations.
Knowledge of storage systems, distributed data platforms, or enterprise AI infrastructure.
Past contributions to open-source developer platforms, AI tooling, or infrastructure projects.
Skills and Tools
AI-Assisted Software Development
Agentic Engineering Systems
Loop Engineering
Developer Platforms and Tooling
LLM Inference Serving
Inference Orchestration
GPU Infrastructure and Cluster Operations
Distributed Systems Architecture
CI/CD Automation
Automated Quality Engineering
Software Validation and Evaluation Frameworks
Cloud and Container Technologies
Production Platform Engineering
About the Company
DDN builds advanced data services and high-performance computing infrastructure. The company focuses on empowering teams to deliver high-velocity, reliable software solutions.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should visit the official DDN careers page to submit their application for this remote position.
