Lead Infrastructure and Reliability Engineer (Systems & Scale)

What You’ll Own

Reliability of the Frontier

• Architect and operate large, heterogeneous GPU environments under extreme demand
• Improve utilization and performance where small gains materially change company outcomes
• Resolve failures that span hardware, OS, runtimes, and orchestration
• Eliminate entire classes of instability
• Build mechanisms that make heroics unnecessary

Scaling Training & Inference

• Define how infrastructure and workloads evolve as cluster size and concurrency grow
• Design scheduling, placement, and resource management approaches for increasingly complex jobs
• Work directly with research to build the systems required for new model capabilities
• Ensure inference platforms scale rapidly without sacrificing reliability or latency
• Anticipate where today’s abstractions will fail and redesign ahead of them

Building the Organization

• Hire and develop exceptional systems and reliability engineers
• Set the bar for technical depth, judgment, and production ownership
• Shape architecture early through strong partnerships with research and product
• Translate reliability constraints into long-term platform strategy

Who You Are

Required:

• Deep expertise in Linux and distributed systems
• Experience operating GPU / accelerator clusters in real production environments
• Strong fluency in Kubernetes and modern open-source infrastructure
• Comfortable debugging across hardware → kernel → runtime → orchestration
• You understand how systems behave under contention and at scale
• You write code and build automation
• You think in bottlenecks, failure modes, and tradeoffs
• Engineers trust your judgment, especially when things break

Important: This role requires comfort operating close to upstream and close to the metal. If most of your experience has been inside highly abstracted internal platforms where others owned the underlying machinery, this is unlikely to be a match.

Leadership Expectations:

• You raise reliability standards across the company
• You influence product and research architecture early
• You build strong partnerships, not ticket queues
• You attract and level up exceptional engineers
• You are curious how models use infrastructure, because improving systems expands what becomes possible

Compensation

The base pay range for this role is $230,000 – $360,000 per year.