Lead Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

About the Role

You are a visionary leader who occupies the space between high-level software orchestration and low-level system performance. You are motivated by the idea that world-class infrastructure should be a catalyst for public good, not a proprietary secret. You understand that in the world of frontier AI, the software and the hardware are a single, inseparable organism.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop the roadmap for managing large-scale HPC systems
• Full-Stack Ownership: Lead the design and delivery of critical systems from Beaker job scheduler to execution runtime
• System Automation: Build innovative tooling and software-defined infrastructure
• Performance Optimization: Conduct root-cause analysis on complex distributed system failures
• Mentorship & Culture: Foster a high-performance culture by reviewing code/design docs

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience developing business-critical software and operating large-scale compute infrastructure
• Deep Linux Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Linux internals and container runtimes
• Distributed Systems Mastery: Designing, debugging, and optimizing high-scale distributed systems
• HPC Foundations: Experience with Kubernetes or Slurm and high-performance networking (NCCL and InfiniBand)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision coverage
• 401k plan
• $125/month commuting or internet expenses
• $200/month fitness and wellbeing expenses
• 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 7 personal days