Senior Platform Engineer, Delivery & Reliability

Are you someone who sees a fragile patchwork of build scripts, manual handoffs, and tribal knowledge and thinks 'I want to replace all of this with something engineers actually trust and love to use'? We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Delivery & Reliability to own the trusted software delivery and reliability platform that enables product teams to move from idea to customer impact with speed, safety, and confidence. RDI Technologies is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based technology company that invented an entirely new category of industrial sensing. Founded on the idea that the camera is the sensor of the future, RDI's proprietary Motion Amplification® platform enables us to see and measure motion that is invisible to the human eye, turning every pixel into a sensor. What started in 2013 as a university lab spin-out has become one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies, earning a spot on the Inc. 5000 list for three consecutive years. Today, RDI's technology is used by over 650 corporate clients across 38+ industries in more than 62 countries, serving sectors from aerospace and defense to oil and gas, power generation, and automotive. The company's Iris product family is redefining how the world's most critical infrastructure is maintained and how products are designed and tested. If you're looking for a place where your engineering work directly keeps real equipment running and real industries moving, RDI is that place. This role is not simply responsible for writing CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions workflows, or build scripts. As AI increasingly generates code, tests, automation, documentation, and autonomous agents that execute delivery tasks, the durable value of this role is owning the agentic system of trust around software delivery: what must be proven, automated, observed, governed, and recoverable before software is built, packaged, released, installed, updated, or operated in the field. This is not a narrow automation role. It is a platform ownership role at the center of engineering scale. You will have influence across the full delivery lifecycle: from code to validated artifact, from release candidate to customer installation, and from operational incident back into stronger automation, better release gates, and more reliable products. The Senior Platform Engineer turns the software delivery lifecycle into a reliable internal product. They create the paved roads, standards, automation, observability, and guardrails that allow human engineers and AI-assisted workflows to ship better software with less friction and lower risk. For the right person, this role offers a rare combination of technical depth, cross-functional influence, platform ownership, reliability impact, and future-facing AI governance. You will help build the foundation that allows teams to move faster without becoming fragile, automate more without losing control, and release more confidently across software, hardware, and field-deployed products. Mission of the Role The mission of this role is to improve the business outcomes produced by engineering by making software delivery faster, safer, more observable, more repeatable, and more resilient. This role exists to answer questions such as: How quickly can a product team move from code change to validated release artifact? Can we prove what changed, what was tested, what was approved, and what was released? Can we consistently build, package, sign, install, update, and recover our software? Can engineers and AI-assisted workflows safely use the same trusted delivery paths? Can we detect failures early, respond quickly, and prevent the same issues from recurring? Can our delivery platform scale across products, hardware environments, test systems, and field deployments? Can engineers, AI-assisted workflows, and autonomous AI agents safely use the same trusted delivery paths? The role owns the platform and practices that make those outcomes possible. Key Responsibilities Own the Delivery Platform as an Internal Product Treat the delivery and reliability platform as a product used by software, hardware, QA, application engineering, support, and AI-assisted workflows. Define the roadmap, standards, paved roads, and platform patterns that reduce engineering friction, release risk, and operational failure. Design the Trusted Path from Code to Customer Own the workflows that move changes from source control through build, test, artifact generation, signing, packaging, release approval, deployment, installation, update, and monitoring. Ensure delivery paths are automated, traceable, reproducible, governed, and easier to use than risky manual alternatives. Improve Release Readiness and Quality Signals Partner w