Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this role actually is An agent-platform engineer owns the substrate a company's AI agents run on: the registry that records what exists, the identity layer that gives each agent a principal which can be audited and revoked, the permission model that bounds what it can touch, the telemetry that records what it did and cost, and the pipeline that retires it when it stops earning its keep. The unit of work is the fleet, not the agent. If an agent is a service, this is the person running the service catalogue, the access plane and the deprecation process for all of them at once — and the role is routinely confused with three neighbours. It is not the AI governance engineer. That role, covered in our companion guide to the AI governance engineer career path, starts from an obligation…
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