[Hiring] Staff AI Platform Engineer @Life360

Role Description

The AI Platforms team at Life360 builds the shared foundation that enables the rapid and safe use of AI across the organization. This includes:

• Model access and routing
• MCP gateway and connectors
• Agent runtime and orchestration platform
• Memory and knowledge infrastructure
• Evaluations and observability
• Cost controls

As an AI Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing the infrastructure that supports every engineer and agent at Life360, extending it from internal productivity to member-facing product features.

In this role, you will:

• Own production components end to end
• Set the technical direction for your area
• Transform early momentum into established pathways that other teams will adopt
• Ship code, review designs, and make pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions
• Collaborate closely with AI Dev Tooling and Agentic PDLC teams

You will report to the Director of AI Platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 3+ years building platforms or infrastructure used by other engineers
• Experience building and operating production AI systems
• Working knowledge of MCP and agent orchestration
• Strong backend and cloud fundamentals
• Experience running AI inference in production
• Clear written communication skills

Requirements

• Establish the overarching vision for AI-native engineering best practices
• Build the agent runtime and orchestration platform
• Operate the MCP gateway and connector infrastructure
• Support the LLM gateway
• Build eval and regression infrastructure
• Setup observability
• Work with Security, Privacy, and Legal teams
• Define how product teams access, run, and monitor AI inference
• Own what you build in production
• Enable memory, retrieval, and knowledge infrastructure
• Make the right way the easy way
• Partner with AI DevX and Agentic PDLC
• Mentor engineers on agent architecture and evaluation rigor
• Explore foundational memory, retrieval, and shared knowledge capabilities

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous time off: flexible PTO, companywide holidays, summer and winter shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership and Tile trackers