Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)

Job description

We are looking for an AI Infra engineer to join our growing team. We work with Kubernetes, Slurm, Python, C++, PyTorch, and primarily on AWS. As an AI Infrastructure Engineer, you will be partnering closely with our Inference and Research teams to build, deploy, and optimize our large-scale AI training and inference clusters

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training workloads

• Manage and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments for distributed training of large language models

• Develop robust APIs and orchestration systems for both training pipelines and inference services

• Implement resource scheduling and job management systems across heterogeneous compute environments

• Benchmark system performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and implement improvements across both training and inference infrastructure

• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions tailored to ML workloads running on Kubernetes and Slurm

• Respond swiftly to system outages and collaborate across teams to maintain high uptime for critical training runs and inference services

• Optimize cluster utilization and implement autoscaling strategies for dynamic workload demands

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, including custom resource definitions, operators, and cluster management

• Hands-on experience with Slurm workload management, including job scheduling, resource allocation, and cluster optimization

• Experience with deploying and managing distributed training systems at scale

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