Infrastructure Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will own core services for coordinating agent runs and build a Kubernetes-based runtime for agent sessions. You will also maintain credential models for secure API calls and manage system reliability and observability.

What you will do

• Own core services that coordinate agent runs and keep execution state durable and recoverable
• Build and harden the sandboxed, Kubernetes-based runtime that isolates agent sessions
• Maintain the credential model for agents to call third-party APIs without holding raw keys
• Own monitoring, alerting, incident response, and failure-recovery behavior
• Keep Centaur capable of self-hosted deployment with clean configuration and upgrades

Required qualifications

• A track record of building world-class products
• Experience applying modern AI and software systems to solve complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end
• Comfortable navigating everything from foundational models to full-stack product delivery
• Pragmatic, product-minded builder who cares about solving real problems rather than overfitting to academic ML goals
• Ability to work autonomously and as a collaborator on the team
• Exceptional team player
• Extreme open-mindedness
• Clarity of thought
• Clear and concise communication (both written and verbal)
• Technical depth; analytical; rigorous
• Highly curious; fast learner
• Ability to bridge technical and investing mindsets

About the company

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on frontier technologies with over $11 billion in assets under management. The firm makes investments in companies and protocols at all stages.