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Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Interpretability

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $320,000–$320,000🗓 2026-08-12 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build secure, scalable infrastructure enabling deep access to frontier AI models for interpretability research, focusing on security, privacy, data/compute management, and developer experience.

Role type

Senior IC infrastructure engineer (AI safety/interpretability)

Builds

Secure research environments, data systems, compute tooling, and observability stacks for model analysis

Domain

AI Safety / Interpretability / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Rust, Go, Java, distributed systems, cloud systems, secure software infrastructure, cross-functional communication, ambiguity navigation

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, security engineering (IAM, sandboxing), data warehousing, large-scale storage, compute schedulers, accelerator fleet management, developer productivity tooling

Responsibilities

Design and own shared infrastructure for research environments, data systems, and compute tooling; Lead cross-team efforts with agentic engineering, security, compute, and storage teams; Resolve organization-wide developer experience issues; Help transition interpretability methods to dependable audit pipelines

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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