Senior Platform Engineer, Medical Devices

📋 Job Overview

At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location. With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us. We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets.

🏢 About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.

🎯 The Role

We are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to develop the infrastructure, tooling, and pipelines required to support the operational needs of our Medical Device product, from an embedded Linux fleet in the field to the cloud. Treating infrastructure as a product, you'll build the systems that let our device, cloud, and data-science software engineers ship quickly and safely. This is a hands-on, systems-minded role - you will write real tooling, not just pipeline YAML- and you will make the compliant path the fast path so we never trade patient safety for speed.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Platform & Infrastructure: Own the build, signing, rollout, rollback, and per-device configuration for our in-field Linux kiosk fleet—along with the update mechanisms, recovery mechanisms, and operational tooling that keep fielded devices safe and reliable, and working with our cloud system.
• CI/CD & Release Promotion: Own CI/CD, test-gated promotion, controlled approvals, and release traceability across both cloud and device software, defining the deployment control plane that makes releases boring, reversible, and auditable.
• Observability & Infrastructure Quality: Own the operational quality bar for the platform—observability, alerting, reliability, backup and recovery, auditability, and security controls—and build the tooling that makes the safe path the default path.
• AWS Infrastructure Support: Operate the AWS and Terraform foundation on which the product and engineering teams depend —reliable, secure, and reproducible—focused on keeping production systems running, rather than infrastructure for its own sake.
• Developer Self-Service: Establish golden paths and self-service tools that empower engineers to deploy independently, while serving as a direct advisor for complex build or deployment issues.
• Execution & Ownership: You design, build, test, and maintain real tooling and services, held to the same engineering standards as product code.
• Engineer How We Meet Regulation: Turn our regulatory requirements into automated, tested tooling tied directly to delivery—traceability, software bill of materials (SBOM), artifact signing, and audit trails, plus pipeline and device security.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Be the platform infrastructure's technical voice with Product, Clinical, Regulatory, and InfoSec—translating their needs into platform work and supporting our clinical studies and regulatory submissions (e.g., 510(k) / De Novo).
• Data Platform Enablement: Support the data-science team's platform needs—reproducible environments, scalable compute, and reliable model serving—as they arise.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Proven Public Cloud Platform Experience: 8+ years in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering in AWS, with Staff-level ownership of production CI/CD and release systems for a complex, distributed system manipulating and storing sensitive data—paired with strong, general software-engineering ability in a modern language (Python or Go)
• Linux & Device Fleet Operations: Experience operating Linux-based systems and fleets of networked/IoT devices, including OTA update strategies.
• CI/CD & Release Ownership: Demonstrated ownership of CI/CD and release/promotion systems, including test gating, approvals, and reversible deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code: Deep expertise in Terraform/Terragrunt, plus containerization (Docker; ECS

🎁 Benefits

Competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation with ranges based on geographic pay tiers. Individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges.