C3 AI (NYSE: AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise. Learn more at: C3 AI
C3 AI is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer - Platform to join our Platform Engineering team. You will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the core platform features, frameworks, and development tools used to build enterprise-scale AI applications. Your work will directly support application development, platform scalability, and engineering productivity across the company.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain core platform services, frameworks, and developer tools used across an enterprise-scale AI platform.
- Design and maintain robust automation for testing, integration, and deployment across a distributed development organization.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation to provision, manage, and improve cloud environments reliably and consistently.
- Build and maintain internal tools and services that improve engineering productivity, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
- Support engineering workflows, release automation, version control integration, code validation, and platform rule enforcement.
- Improve the reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational quality of platform services, frameworks, and automation systems.
- Partner closely with software engineering and product management teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
- Own features end-to-end, including design, documentation, implementation, testing, maintenance, and mentoring engineers on engineering standards and best practices.
Qualifications:
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of backend, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java and one or more scripting or automation languages such as Python, Shell, or Groovy.
- Experience designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, and testing workflows.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform, and cloud environment provisioning or management.
- Familiarity with Go for infrastructure tooling, automation, or cloud platform development.
- Experience designing and developing scalable platform services, frameworks, APIs, developer-facing tools, or engineering workflow systems.
- Hands-on understanding of software development principles, design patterns, testing, debugging, observability, and performance analysis.
- Systematic problem-solving approach with a strong sense of ownership, independence, and operational accountability.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across engineering, infrastructure, release, and product teams.
C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
C3 AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics, including disabled and veteran status.
Skills Required
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 3+ years of backend, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Java.
- Hands-on experience with one or more scripting or automation languages such as Python, Shell, or Groovy.
- Experience designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, and testing workflows.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform).
- Familiarity with Go for infrastructure tooling, automation, or cloud platform development.
- Experience designing and developing scalable platform services, frameworks, APIs, developer-facing tools, or engineering workflow systems.
- Hands-on understanding of software development principles, design patterns, testing, debugging, observability, and performance analysis.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work across engineering, infrastructure, release, and product teams.
C3 AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about C3 AI and has not been reviewed or approved by C3 AI.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive to above average for many roles, and compensation stands out more positively than several other aspects of the company. High-end packages are available in certain roles and levels, indicating the ability to pay at or above market when needed.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — The company funds an online master’s program that confers a $25,000 completion bonus, a guaranteed 15% raise, and a stock grant. Ongoing internal training and small course-completion bonuses further tie rewards to development milestones.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily catered lunches, stocked snacks, a free gym membership at the Redwood City HQ, and commuter benefits provide tangible day-to-day perks. Business-travel health coverage and other on-site amenities enhance the workplace experience for those regularly in office.
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What We Do
C3 AI is the leading Enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. Digital transformation is about leveraging big data and the internet of things to improve performance of assets and predict shortfalls before they happen — all through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Get ahead of supply chain delays before they affect your delivery deadlines. Predict maintenance needs to increase asset uptime, replacing or repairing parts before failure. Reduce energy costs and track sustainability goals in real time, improving building operations and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Connect disparate health record systems to optimize patient visits and decrease waitlist time. At the core of all C3 AI products is a proprietary, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically enhances data science and application development. The C3 AI Platform allows customers to develop, deploy, and operate large-scale AI, predictive analytics, and IoT applications. And a broad portfolio of turnkey AI applications allows for even faster development and deployment. From reliability and readiness to supply chain optimization and energy management, C3 AI has deep industry expertise to get your enterprise started on its digital transformation.
