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Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-11)💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect, build, and scale the end-to-end machine learning platform powering autonomous defense systems (Fury, Barracuda) and Lattice OS.

Role type

Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

End-to-end ML platform, MLOps tooling, and systems architecture for training, evaluating, hosting, and serving complex AI models (LLMs, CV, RL) in cloud and air-gapped edge networks.

Domain

Defense technology / Autonomous systems / AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Go, C++, ML systems design, distributed computing, containerized deployments, GPU scheduling, distributed training frameworks, ETL pipelines, technical direction, mentoring

Preferred skills

Secure/air-gapped ML infrastructure, LLM/GenAI/RL training platforms, hardware performance profiling, multi-tenant ML platforms, next-gen AI accelerators (Trainium/TPUs/ASICs), ML observability

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch Distributed, Ray, Slurm, Megatron-LM, AWS Trainium, Google TPUs

Responsibilities

Design and maintain foundational training, orchestration, and experimentation infrastructure; Build automated tools for hyperparameter tuning and model profiling; Design and scale high-performance ETL pipelines for terabytes of multi-modal data; Architect high-throughput, low-latency model serving frameworks for cloud and edge; Build CI/CD pipelines for ML models with automated validation and canary deployments; Work with researchers to design unified infrastructure standards.

Seniority

Staff, founding team, technical roadmap ownership & mentorship

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