Basic information
Job Name:
AI Platform Engineer
Location:
Washington, DC
Line of Business:
Global Technology & Solutions
Job Function:
Investor Services
Date:
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
AI Platform Engineer
The Carlyle Group
Software Engineering, Data Science
Washington, USA
USD 160k-180k / year
Posted on Jun 5, 2026
Position Summary
Carlyle is hiring an AI Platform Engineer to join our Enterprise Technology team. In this role, you will partner with engineering teams, product owners, and other business stakeholders to design, build, and maintain the AI-enabled developer platforms used across our global technology organization.
As an AI Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling modern AI-driven development across our engineering organization, supporting a development community of over 500 users. Your work will directly shape how Carlyle’s engineers design, build, test, and ship software in an AI-native way. You will spend your time writing code, building agentic frameworks, integrating AI coding assistants into the SDLC, and creating the platforms, registries, and abstractions that make AI-driven development safe, repeatable, and scalable inside the firm.
You will be instrumental across the full lifecycle of our AI developer platforms, from prototyping new agentic workflows and evaluating emerging tooling to productionizing the infrastructure that runs them. You will build internal frameworks, skills and tool registries, MCP integrations, and supporting platforms that allow engineers to safely leverage AI across every stage of software delivery, from issue triage and code generation through review, testing, and deployment.
You will work with application engineering, cloud operations, security, and architecture teams to identify friction in the developer experience and deliver paved-road platforms that make AI-driven practices the default way of working at Carlyle. You will also promote these practices across the firm, partnering with engineering teams to drive adoption and measurable productivity gains.
The ideal candidate has the following skills and competencies:
- AI-Enabled Development: Hands-on experience integrating AI coding assistants and agentic tooling into engineering workflows, including tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, MCP-based integrations, Coder, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Familiarity with the surrounding scaffolding (skills, agents, registries, hooks, and guardrails) that makes these tools usable in an enterprise environment.
- Platform Engineering Fluency: Demonstrated experience building and operating internal developer platforms (IDPs) at scale, including paved roads, self-service interfaces, and golden path templates. You think of the platform as a product and treat developers as your customers.
- Communication: Able to articulate the value of AI and platform investments to a range of stakeholders, and to build credibility with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
- Hands-On Engineering: Spends the majority of working hours writing code. Comfortable with production code, building integrations, debugging pipelines, and shipping features end-to-end across distributed systems.
- Adaptability: Comfortable with ambiguity and committed to ongoing learning as the AI tooling landscape evolves. Looks for practical ways to improve the developer experience.
In-Office Requirement: 4 days per week
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AI-enabled developer platforms serving a development community of over 500 engineers across the technology organization.
- Integrate AI coding assistants and agent runtimes (Claude Code, Cursor, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and similar) into developer workflows, including the harnesses, hooks, and reference patterns required to use them effectively in an enterprise setting.
- Build and maintain agentic frameworks, skills and tool registries, MCP gateways, and the supporting infrastructure that allows engineering teams to safely and effectively use AI across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Develop self-service cloud development environments and internal developer portal capabilities (using platforms such as Coder) that let application teams provision, configure, and operate their environments with minimal central involvement.
- Implement paved-road developer experiences across source control, CI/CD, environments, observability, security, and release management, with AI capabilities integrated where they add value.
- Prototype and evaluate new AI development tools, agent runtimes, and orchestration patterns, and incorporate the most useful capabilities into the platform.
- Partner directly with engineering teams across the firm to drive adoption of AI-enabled development practices and translate user feedback into platform improvements.
- Collaborate with security, networking, cloud operations, and architecture teams to ensure platform capabilities are secure, compliant, and well-integrated with existing infrastructure, and contribute to internal documentation and reference implementations that help engineers get the most out of AI-driven development.
Qualifications
Education & Certificates
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Concentration in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or similar discipline, strongly preferred
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, or similar cloud certifications preferred
- Industry-standard certifications in platform engineering, Kubernetes, GitHub, or AI/ML preferred
Professional Experience
- 5+ years of relevant software or platform engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI platforms and tooling into enterprise engineering workflows, including agent runtimes, AI coding assistants, MCP-based integrations, and the supporting infrastructure required to operate them safely at scale.
- Practical experience implementing and managing AI development tools such as: Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, Coder..
- Demonstrated experience building or operating internal developer platforms (IDPs), self-service developer environments, software factories, or internal developer portals (Backstage or similar).
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including the services that underpin modern developer platforms (EKS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, VPC, S3, and similar).
- Strong proficiency with GitHub Enterprise, including GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and platform-level patterns such as IssueOps and workflow orchestration.
- Strong proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and modern CI/CD practices for both application and platform delivery.
- Strong proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar) and comfort writing production code.
- Demonstrated ability to translate platform investments into measurable developer productivity and adoption outcomes.
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and secure-by-default platform patterns.
- Commitment to ongoing learning as AI and developer tooling continue to evolve.
Competencies & Attributes
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of troubleshooting distributed systems and developer tooling issues.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics and present to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven collaboration skills across multiple technology and project teams to deliver effective solutions.
- Ability to communicate clearly in presentations and written documentation.
- Ability to prioritize and deliver across competing demands.
Benefits/Compensation
The compensation range for this role is specific to Washington, DC, and takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to the skill sets required/preferred; prior experience and training; licenses and/or certifications.
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $160,000 to $180,000.
In addition to the base salary, the hired professional will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package spanning retirement benefits, health insurance, life insurance and disability, paid time off, paid holidays, family planning benefits and various wellness programs. Additionally, the hired professional may also be eligible to participate in an annual discretionary incentive program, the award of which will be dependent on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Due to the high volume of candidates, please be advised that only candidates selected to interview will be contacted by Carlyle.
Company Information
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with $475 billion of assets under management, across 678 investment vehicles as of March 31, 2026. Founded in 1987 in Washington, DC, Carlyle has grown into one of the world's largest and most successful investment firms, with more than 2,500 professionals operating in 28 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors, which range from public and private pension funds to wealthy individuals and families to sovereign wealth funds, unions and corporations. Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Carlyle AlpInvest – and has deep expertise across industries, markets, and geographies.
At Carlyle, we believe that a wide spectrum of experiences and viewpoints drives performance and success. Our CEO, Harvey Schwartz, has stated that, "To build better businesses and create value for all of our stakeholders, we are focused on assembling leadership teams with the strongest insights from a range of perspectives." Reflecting this view, emphasis is placed on development, retention and inclusion through our internal processes and seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). We cultivate a culture where ideas are openly shared and challenged, connecting diverse expertise and perspectives to drive enduring value.