CareerPlan

Senior Staff/Principal Engineer, Foundation Model Compute Infra

Santa Clara, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Architect, build, and operate large-scale infrastructure powering foundation model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference.

Role type

Senior Staff/Principal Engineer (Foundation Model Compute Infra)

Builds

Distributed scheduling systems, accelerator fleets, sandbox infrastructure for AI agents, and scalable inference services.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Cloud Computing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, Kubernetes, Python/Go/C++, Accelerator infrastructure, Fault tolerance, Cluster orchestration, Autoscaling, Technical leadership

Preferred skills

TPU/GPU fleet operations, Large-scale distributed training, JAX/XLA, LLM-based agents, Multi-tenant quota management

Technologies

Kubernetes, TPU, GPU, Python, Go, C++, JAX, XLA

Responsibilities

Design distributed scheduling and capacity management systems; Improve fault tolerance for thousands of accelerators; Architect Kubernetes-based infrastructure; Integrate new TPU generations; Build secure sandbox infrastructure for AI agents; Develop self-service developer tools and observability systems; Partner with researchers to translate requirements into production infrastructure.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on technical leadership