# Platform Support Engineer

**Company:** [Lightning AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightning-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Support Engineering
**Salary:** $115k – $140k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PyTorch, CUDA, Nccl, Python, Ray
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Support ML infrastructure at scale: troubleshoot Kubernetes, GPU clusters, and distributed training systems while collaborating directly with engineering teams and customers.

## Job Description

## Required Qualifications

### Infrastructure & Systems
- Strong software engineering and systems troubleshooting background
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
- Linux systems knowledge, including networking, storage, process management, and performance tuning
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
- Experience with observability and debugging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

### ML Infrastructure Experience
- Hands on experience operating machine learning workloads in production or research environments
- Experience with distributed ML systems and tooling such as PyTorch, CUDA, or NCCL
- Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and orchestration
- Experience troubleshooting performance, reliability, or scaling issues in ML infrastructure
- Understanding of the operational challenges involved in running ML systems at scale

### Collaboration
- Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with highly technical customers and engineering teams
- Comfortable operating in fast moving, highly ambiguous environments
- Enjoys solving complex technical problems collaboratively

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with large scale model training or distributed inference systems
- Familiarity with Ray, Kubeflow, Slurm, or similar distributed scheduling platforms
- Experience with InfiniBand, RDMA, or high-performance networking
- Experience operating bare metal infrastructure
- Familiarity with storage systems commonly used in ML environments
- Experience working at an AI infrastructure, cloud, MLOps, or developer tooling company
- Contributions to platform engineering, developer infrastructure, or operational tooling projects
- Experience writing automation, tooling, or scripts in Python or similar languages

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