Senior Enterprise AI Control Plane Engineer
Boston, NH - USA
Job Summary
Our world is transforming and PTC is leading the software brings the physical and digital worlds together enabling companies to improve operations create better products and empower people in all aspects of their business.
Our people make all the difference in our success. Today we are a global team of nearly 7000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore learn and grow all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.
We are looking for a Senior Enterprise AI Control Plane Engineer with 5 to 8 years of experience to help set up manage and operate our enterprise AI governance and integration layer.
This role will focus on configuring and managing MCP Gateways AI/LLM Gateways policies access controls governance observability and agent registries. The ideal candidate is techno-functional with a strong foundation in API Management / API Governance and an interest in extending those concepts into the emerging AI agent and MCP ecosystem.
The person in this role will work closely with business stakeholders architecture security platform teams and application owners as teams build AI agents that connect to internal and vendor MCP servers through a common governed gateway.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure and operate the Enterprise AI Control Plane including MCP gateways LLM gateways policies access control observability and governance.
- Help onboard internal and vendor MCP servers through a common gateway for secure and observable agent access.
- Define and implement governance patterns for AI agents MCP tools model access rate limits logging approvals and usage tracking.
- Partner with business teams to understand AI agent use cases and translate them into secure platform configurations.
- Collaborate with security and architecture teams on authentication authorization RBAC audit logging and policy enforcement.
- Support discovery cataloging and lifecycle management of AI agents MCP servers and reusable tools
- Build operational dashboards and reports for agent usage MCP tool usage LLM usage errors latency and policy violations.
- Create reusable onboarding guides standards runbooks and best practices for AI agent integrations.
Required Experience
- 5 to 8 years of experience in enterprise integration API management platform engineering cloud engineering or related roles.
- Strong understanding of API gateways API governance API security lifecycle management policies subscriptions and observability.
- Experience with authentication and access control patterns such as OAuth OIDC JWT API keys RBAC service principals managed identity or SSO.
- Ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience supporting production platforms troubleshooting issues and creating operational documentation.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain governance and platform concepts clearly.
Preferred Skills
Experience with one or more of the following platforms or equivalent technologies:
- LiteLLM or other LLM gateway platforms for model routing budgets guardrails logging and usage tracking
- Azure API Management MCP capabilities for exposing APIs as MCP servers and governing MCP traffic.
- Microsoft Foundry AI Gateway for centralized governance of MCP traffic access control rate limits and audit logging.
- Microsoft Agent 365 Registry for centralized visibility and governance of enterprise AI agents.
- Salesforce Agentforce / MuleSoft Agent Fabric / Omni Gateway for agent discovery orchestration governance and observability.
- Boomi API Control Plane / Boomi MCP capabilities for exposing managed APIs as MCP tools.
- Equivalent platforms such as Kong Apigee MuleSoft Anypoint WSO2 Tyk AWS API Gateway AWS Bedrock or other AI gateway/control plane platforms.
Technical Areas
- Model Context Protocol concepts MCP servers MCP clients and MCP tools.
- AI/LLM gateways model routing provider abstraction usage controls and guardrails.
- API governance API products policies versioning catalogs and lifecycle management.
- Observability tools such as Azure Monitor Application Insights OpenTelemetry Datadog Splunk Grafana or Prometheus.
- Cloud and integration platforms preferably Azure Boomi MuleSoft or equivalent.
- Exposure to Claude Codex Cursor or equivalent AI Engineering tools
PTC carefully considers a wide varietyof factors when determining compensation. The anticipated annual salary range for this position is between $135000 - $155000. The salary range reflects a good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidates skills qualifications experience and location. Additionally candidates may be eligible for a performance-based bonus. Employees also have the opportunity to become a PTC shareholder through our employee share purchase program (ESPP) which allows for the purchase of discounted PTC stock. Certain roles may also be eligible for participation in our equity programs. Employees may be eligible for medical dental and vision insurance paid time off and sick leave tuition reimbursement 401(k) contributions and employer match flexible spending accounts life insurance disability coverage and if you are an office-assigned employee a generous commuter subsidy. All total rewards and benefits programs are subject to applicable plan eligibility and other terms and conditions.
For more information about PTCs comprehensive benefits please visit our Careers Page.
PTC recruits on a rolling basis. Candidates are considered as they apply until the opportunity is filled.
Life at PTC is about more than working with todays most cutting-edge technologies to transform the physical world. Its about showing up as you are and working alongside some of todays most talented industry leaders to transform the world around you.
If you share our passion for problem-solving through innovation youll likely become just as passionate about the PTC experience as we are. Are you ready to explore your next career move with us
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PTC accelerates digital transformation with a new generation of technology that powers the ways you engineer, manufacture, and service your physical products.