Member of Technical Staff - Research Infrastructure Engineer
€100k - €230k • Freiburg (Germany) • FullTime
Posted 1y ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
We are seeking engineers to build and maintain the core infrastructure powering our mission to develop visual intelligence. This role involves maintaining and scaling compute clusters, building research platforms to accelerate innovation, and enabling large-scale, efficient resource orchestration for multi-week/month long training runs. If you are passionate about distributed systems at scale, infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, and continuous improvement, this team offers a unique opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking AI models.
Responsibilities
- Maintain research infrastructure, ensuring health and optimizing components for peak performance.
- Scale infrastructure to meet growing research demands while maintaining reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with research teams to understand infrastructure needs and design performant, cost-efficient solutions.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and capacity hotspots in large distributed systems.
- Build and evolve telemetry and monitoring systems for deep visibility into infrastructure performance, utilization, and costs.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain system reliability.
Requirements
- Experience building or operating large-scale training platforms.
- Experience with large-scale compute clusters (GPUs).
- Proven ability to debug performance and reliability issues across large distributed fleets.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with partners.
- Deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP.
- Experience with SLURM.
Benefits
- Equity
- Relocation assistance
- Travel cost coverage