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Senior Production Engineer, Managed AI

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2026-06-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, operate, and scale reliable managed AI services and distributed systems for compute-intensive, latency-sensitive LLM workloads.

Role type

Senior IC production engineer (AI infrastructure)

Builds

Managed AI services, distributed AI pipelines, inference services, and observability tooling

Domain

AI infrastructure, cloud services, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems design, LLM/AI infrastructure experience, SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, observability, fault tolerance), modern programming (Python/Go/Java/C++), Kubernetes/container orchestration

Preferred skills

scaling inference or training workloads for LLMs

Technologies

Kubernetes, Python, Go, Java, C++, telemetry tools

Responsibilities

Design and operate reliable managed AI services for LLM workloads; Build automation and reliability tooling for distributed AI pipelines; Define and improve SLIs/SLOs for AI workloads; Collaborate with teams to optimize large-scale training and inference clusters; Automate observability with telemetry and performance tuning; Investigate and resolve reliability issues in distributed AI systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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