Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure (Multiple Seniority Levels)

Beacon AI is a team of aviators, engineers, and operators building an AI platform to make flying safer, more efficient, and more capable. The Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure role will design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure AWS infrastructure, LLM platforms, ML systems, data pipelines, and IoT deployments. The role also partners with product and application teams to integrate cloud and machine learning capabilities into user-facing features.

Responsibilities:

• Design, provision, and maintain AWS infrastructure using IaC tools such as AWS CDK or Terraform
• Build CI/CD and testing for apps, infra, and ML pipelines using GitHub Actions, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline
• Operate secure networking with VPCs, PrivateLink, and VPC endpoints. Manage IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and audit logging
• Stand up and operate model endpoints using AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker; evaluate when to use ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Batch for inference jobs
• Build and maintain application services that call LLMs through clean APIs, with streaming, batching, and backoff strategies
• Implement prompt and tool execution flows with LangChain or similar, including agent tools and function calling
• Design chunking and embedding pipelines for documents, time series, and multimedia. Orchestrate with Step Functions or Airflow
• Operate vector search using OpenSearch Serverless, Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector, or Pinecone. Tune recall, latency, and cost
• Build and maintain knowledge bases and data syncs from S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, and external sources
• Create offline and online eval harnesses for prompts, retrievers, and chains. Track quality, latency, and regression risk
• Instrument model and app telemetry with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry. Build token usage and cost dashboards with budgets and alerts
• Add guardrails, rate limits, fallbacks, and provider routing for resilience
• Implement PII detection and redaction, access controls, content filters, and human-in-the-loop review where needed
• Use Bedrock Guardrails or policy services to enforce safety standards. Maintain audit trails for regulated environments
• Build ingestion and processing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimedia data. Ensure integrity, lineage, and cataloging with Glue and Lake Formation
• Optimize bulk data movement and storage in S3, Glacier, and tiered storage. Use Athena for ad-hoc analysis
• Manage infrastructure that deploys to and communicates with edge devices. Support secure messaging, identity, and over-the-air updates
• Partner with product and application teams to integrate retrieval services, embeddings, and LLM chains into user-facing features
• Provide expert troubleshooting for cloud and ML services with an emphasis on uptime and performance
• Tune retrieval quality, context window use, and caching with Redis or Bedrock Knowledge Bases
• Optimize inference with model selection, quantization where applicable, GPU/CPU instance choices, and autoscaling strategies