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Sr. Software Engineer, ML Platform
Palo Alto, CA. Posted 3 days ago
The role
You will build infrastructure that turns product usage into better models and supports research on large GPU fleets. You will design, build, and operate core platform systems used by ML researchers and product engineers.
What you will do
- Design, build, and operate core platform systems used daily by ML researchers and product engineers
- Partner closely with research to turn recurring pain into durable infrastructure
- Own reliability, performance, and developer experience for the systems in your lane
- Ship iteratively in a flat, high-ownership environment
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in computer science, machine learning, or another quantitative discipline; OR equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of industry experience working with production distributed systems (e.g., infrastructure, ingestion, data pipelines, or scheduling/orchestration, etc.)
Nice to have
- Experience owning production distributed systems at meaningful scale (ingestion, data pipelines, scheduling/orchestration, or similar)
- Experience partnering and building platforms for ML researchers and product engineers
- Thrive where ownership is high and the feedback loop is short
- Telemetry: event ingestion, product analytics pipelines, OpenTelemetry / tracing, reliable data APIs
- Product Data Platform: data frameworks, Spark / Flink / Ray, ML dataset and training-data infrastructure
- Observability: experiment / run monitoring, debug and eval tooling, agent-friendly observability UX
- ML DevX and Systems: GPU / cluster scheduling, job queues, node health, research compute developer experience
Benefits
- Equity
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Various other discounts and perks
Before you apply
- If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2-3 short technicals
- After, we'll schedule an onsite in our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team
About the company
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. They are building the full Super Intelligence stack, from Colossus supercomputers to Grok models and applications.