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Engineering Manager, Frontier AI Infrastructure - Public Sector

Washington, DC💼 Full-time💰 $213,600–$213,600🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the model inference layer for government agencies, enabling state-of-the-art AI models, debugging latency, and managing networking/usage metrics for national security and defense missions.

Role type

Hands-on Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Builds

Secure, scalable backend systems and model inference services for Public Sector customers

Domain

Public Sector / National Security / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

People management, hands-on coding, cloud-native architecture, security compliance, incident management, technical roadmap planning

Preferred skills

Full stack development, air-gapped environment experience, team scaling, root cause analysis

Technologies

Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers; set technical direction for the inference layer; run operational rhythms (sprints, on-call, postmortems); partner with Product and government stakeholders; design secure backend systems; review code and debug production issues

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC

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