Founding Engineer, Distributed GPU Systems

Cambridge Compute Co.; Cambridge; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

C3 is building the operating system for the world's GPUs, with a focus on scalable scheduling and cross-cloud orchestration. We welcome engineers with strong systems background, GPU experience and a demonstrated history of shipping impactful code or open-source projects.

Join one of the first engineers at C3 and contribute toward technical leadership, while shaping how experiments run at scale across clouds and hardware. Production experience in schedulers and HPC setups is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering experience shipping code or exceptional open-source work.
• Demonstrated excellence in physics, maths, computer science, or related technical field.
• Production experience in job scheduling, orchestration, or HPC environments.
• Experience with Linux internals and GPU software stacks is a plus.
• AI-driven workflows and customization of agentic systems are valued.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain a large-scale GPU scheduling and orchestration system.
• Work across Clouds, regions and GPU types with capacity-aware placement.
• Contribute to kernel-level Linux and virtualization-related components.
• Improve reliability, performance and fault tolerance in distributed infra.

Skills

Systems engineering

Distributed systems

Open-source work

Go

TypeScript

Tools

Kubernetes

Nomad

Ray

Slurm

PBS

LSF

QEMU

Firecracker

Cloud Hypervisor

Job description

C3 is building the operating system for the world's GPUs, with a focus on scalable scheduling and cross-cloud orchestration. We welcome engineers with strong systems background, GPU experience and a demonstrated history of shipping impactful code or open-source projects.

Join one of the first engineers at C3 and contribute toward technical leadership, while shaping how experiments run at scale across clouds and hardware. Production experience in schedulers and HPC setups is highly valued.