Compute & Isolation Engineer: Multi-Tenant VM & Hypervisor

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Baseten is seeking a Software Engineer, Compute and Isolation to own the full lifecycle of a microVM used by AI agents. You will manage boot, snapshot, fork, and resume, and optimize performance across diverse host hardware.

We require hands-on experience with KVM and hypervisors such as Firecracker or QEMU, deep Linux internals, and a focus on multi-tenant isolation. Strong debugging from userspace to kernel and hardware is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on KVM or hypervisor work and Linux internals expertise.
• Experience with multi-tenant isolation and security across software layers.
• Strong debugging across userspace, kernel, and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of a microVM (boot, snapshot, fork, resume).
• Tune performance on diverse host hardware and optimize isolation.
• Debug across userspace to kernel to hardware.

Skills

Kernel debugging

Linux internals

Performance tuning

Multi-tenant isolation

Systems programming

Tools

KVM

Firecracker

QEMU

Linux

Rust

Go

Job description

Baseten is seeking a Software Engineer, Compute and Isolation to own the full lifecycle of a microVM used by AI agents. You will manage boot, snapshot, fork, and resume, and optimize performance across diverse host hardware.

We require hands-on experience with KVM and hypervisors such as Firecracker or QEMU, deep Linux internals, and a focus on multi-tenant isolation. Strong debugging from userspace to kernel and hardware is essential.