AI Infrastructure Engineer

Together AI
San Francisco, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level engineers with expertise in AI infrastructure and distributed systems, working in a collaborative San Francisco-based team.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with hands-on experience scaling infrastructure for high concurrency.
    — “Build and run our infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes to enable scaling to a massive number of concurrent users
  • Professionals skilled in monitoring and observability practices.
    — “Direct experience in monitoring and observability practices

Things to consider

  • On-call responsibilities are part of the role.
    — “Participate in on-call rotation (Pagerduty) to respond to production incidents
  • Requires proficiency in specific infrastructure tools.
    — “Knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks), Terraform, and Kubernetes

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate contributions to open-source AI projects.
    — “We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets
  • Highlight experience with cloud services and scaling challenges.
    — “Knowledge of cloud services
  • Showcase problem-solving in debugging production issues.
    — “Debug production issues across all services and levels of the stack
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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Skills & requirements

Required

AI InfrastructureAnsibleTerraformKubernetesMonitoring SystemsOperational Processes

Preferred

Distributed SystemsCloud Services

Stack & domain

AnsibleTerraformKubernetesProgramming/scripting Languages

About the role

Original posting from Together AI via Greenhouse

As an AI Infrastructure Engineer at Together, you are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and production systems running smoothly. You are a blend of a pragmatic operator and a software engineer that applies sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and codebase.

You specialize in systems (operating systems, storage subsystems, networking), while implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Participate in on-call rotation (Pagerduty) to respond to production incidents

Build and run our infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes to enable scaling to a massive number of concurrent users

Build monitoring systems to ensure the highest quality service for our customers

Design and implement operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades)

Debug production issues across all services and levels of the stack

Identify improvements for the product architecture from the reliability, performance and availability perspectives

Plan the growth of Together AI's infrastructure

Requirements

5+ years of professional AI Infra or related experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience

Knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks), Terraform, and Kubernetes

Proficiency in programming/scripting languages

Direct experience in monitoring and observability practices

Knowledge of cloud services

Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts

About Together AI

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models. We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena, FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of researchers and engineers in our journey in building the next generation AI infrastructure.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $190,000 - $270,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Source: Together AI careers (Greenhouse)

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