Pear-VC

Member of Technical Staff, Backend - NomadicML

San Francisco. Posted 12 months ago

The role

You will build and scale the backbone of a video intelligence platform. This includes developing GPU inference pipelines, cloud ingestion infrastructure, and developer SDKs.

What you will do

  • Architect pipelines to run multi-GPU inference jobs on foundation-scale video models.
  • Build direct integrations with AWS S3, GCP Storage, and Azure Blobs for large-scale ingest.
  • Design event-driven, autoscaling job systems using Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, or Ray.
  • Power the NomadicML Python SDK for video ingestion, analysis, and search.
  • Build logging, tracing, and metrics pipelines for GPU utilization and job latency.
  • Support web app Cloud Integrations and Project Workflows through backend endpoints and TypeScript SDK bindings.

Required qualifications

  • Deep proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript for backend systems.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure (IAM, S3/Blob Storage, Batch/Compute APIs, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of GPU inference scaling, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and event-driven pipelines.
  • Prior experience designing REST/gRPC APIs, SDKs, or developer-facing infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with asynchronous job orchestration (Ray, Airflow, Dagster, Temporal).

Nice to have

  • Experience contributing to inference orchestration frameworks or ML infra tools (e.g., DeepSpeed, Triton, Ray Serve).
  • Understanding of video encoding, chunking, and streaming formats for efficient multi-modal ingestion.
  • Basic front-end experience (React / Next.js) for integrating backend pipelines into product workflows.
  • Background in ML infrastructure, observability, or data management systems.

About the company

NomadicML is building a platform that uses Vision-Language Models to transform raw video footage into structured intelligence. The team has built AI systems at Snowflake, Lyft, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM Research.