CareerPlan

Staff Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Austin, TXFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-11

Core

Design and operate the substrate for private, distributed AI inference on customer hardware (bare metal, Apple Silicon, cloud), ensuring secure deployment and scalability.

Role type

Staff Platform/Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Production deployment kits for webAI kernel and B2B SDK across bare metal and cloud environments.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Cloud & On-Prem

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Kubernetes or Nomad, Terraform, AWS/Azure, Rust or Go, Networking (WireGuard, NAT, Load Balancing), Secrets Management (Vault), CI/CD (GitLab), Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki)

Preferred skills

macOS fleet administration, Local LLM inference (llama.cpp, MLX), Air-gapped delivery, Kubernetes operators

Technologies

Nomad, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Azure, AKS, GitLab, Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Rust, Go, Python, Bash, WireGuard, Envoy, mTLS, OIDC, SCIM

Responsibilities

Own deployment for the webAI kernel and B2B SDK; Choose and evolve orchestration approach; Run Apple-silicon fleets in production; Build the inference serving layer; Own the software supply chain; Secure the platform; Build observability and audit; Define high availability and SLOs; Write runbooks and lead incident response; Work with kernel engineers on networking; Mentor engineers.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with architecture and mentorship responsibilities