ML engineer - API Platform
Core
Building the API platform and developer tools that allow external partners to fine-tune, evaluate, and run low-latency inference on Physical Intelligence's foundation models for robotics.
Role type
Senior IC API Product Engineer (Developer Platform)
Builds
Model API, partner-facing tools, and multi-tenant inference infrastructure (via careerplan.io/jobs/14586c10-d913-43c5-8f7c-c77b5c438e4c-ml-engineer-api-platform-at-physicalintelligence)
Domain
AI Infrastructure / Developer Platforms / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Backend systems engineering, distributed systems, API design, multi-tenancy, low-latency inference, Python, observability, SLOs
Preferred skills
Developer platform experience, model fine-tuning infrastructure, real-time/streaming systems, security & auth
Technologies
Python, Postgres, ClickHouse, GCP, Kubernetes, Modal, React, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Build end-to-end model API including data ingestion, fine-tuning, and deployment; Architect scalable multi-tenant infrastructure; Operate low-latency inference systems; Integrate with existing infrastructure; Define developer platform abstractions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
