Staff Infra Engineer - AI Research Cloud & Orchestration

Clera

3 days ago

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Clera is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to own cloud compute, storage, and orchestration for AI/ML research workloads in Zürich.

You will design scalable distributed systems, improve reliability, and partner with researchers to shape the architecture.

This full-time on-site role offers competitive compensation, equity, visa sponsorship, relocation support, and strong tooling.

5–10+ years of relevant experience operating production infrastructure or services.
Strong Python and Linux skills, including scripting, process management, and debugging.
Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform, including compute, storage, networking, and access management.
Understanding of distributed systems concepts such as queues, timeouts, retries, and idempotency.
Experience investigating production issues and balancing reliability, complexity, and cost.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and monitoring platforms (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
Experience with virtualization, VM images and snapshots, batch scheduling, or experiment orchestration is a plus.

Build and manage cloud compute infrastructure that supports research workloads at scale.
Design and optimize distributed workflow scheduling for performance and cost efficiency.
Develop recovery safeguards for worker interruptions, application crashes, and partial results while preventing duplicate work.
Improve monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tools to help identify and resolve system failures.
Partner with researchers and engineers to shape infrastructure architecture.