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As a Staff AI Platform Engineer, you'll build and own the platform that every AI and machine learning workload at DAT runs on. Freight is an uncertain business, and the models we ship reduce that uncertainty: rate forecasts, load-to-truck matching, document extraction, fraud signals, and the agentic workflows our brokers and carriers use to move freight faster. None of that reaches a customer without a platform that makes training, serving, evaluating, and monitoring models routine instead of heroic.
You'll set the architectural direction for that platform, from the model gateway and inference layer through feature and vector storage, evaluation harnesses, and production observability. This is a highly visible role for an engineer who wants their work multiplied across every AI team in the company.
Platform Ownership: Design, build, and operate the shared services that engineers and business users use to ship models: a model gateway for LLM access, inference endpoints for real-time and batch scoring, feature storage, vector search, and a common SDK.
Technical Leadership: Lead architecture for large-scale AI systems, write the design documents, and drive alignment across Product, and Engineering and Business users on how models get built and shipped at DAT.
Cloud Architecture: Architect and run scalable, reliable AI infrastructure on AWS, including Bedrock, SageMaker, EKS, Redpanda, MSK (Kafka), Lambda, and S3, all defined in Pulumi..
Evaluation and Quality: Build the offline and online evaluation systems that tell us whether a model or prompt change is an improvement, including regression suites, LLM-as-judge pipelines, A/B and shadow testing, and drift detection.
Cost and Performance: Own inference cost and latency as first-class metrics. Right-size GPU and serverless capacity, tune batching, caching, and quantization, and give teams clear visibility into what their workloads cost.
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Experience with model fine-tuning, distillation, or parameter-efficient training, and a clear point of view on when it beats prompting.
Background in marketplace, pricing, forecasting, or document extraction problems.
Freight, logistics, or supply chain domain experience.
Why DAT? DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
Parental Leave
Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
401k matching (immediately vested)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Accounts
Employee Assistance Program
Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
Collaborative and supportive team culture
Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
Employee Resource Groups
For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $198,000.00 - $246,000.00 + target bonus. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.
DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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DAT is a private freight marketplace and logistics software company serving shippers, brokers, carriers, and transportation analysts.
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Senior · 10+ years experience
Hybrid
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