Founding AI / Reliability Engineer

SolidRPC; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Stock options (ESOP)

Job summary

SolidRPC seeks a founding AI / Reliability Engineer to build autonomous systems that diagnose and remediate blockchain infrastructure failures. You will work across AI, distributed systems, observability, SRE, and blockchain infra, aiming for reliability that reduces human intervention and delivers verifiable remediation.

As one of the first employees, you will influence core architecture, participate in stock options through ESOP, and collaborate directly with the founders to define our

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering ability is required.
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure is useful but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Design and build autonomous remediation workflows for blockchain infrastructure.
• Develop AI agents that diagnose incidents and select remediation actions.
• Enable automatic verification of remediation success and rollback safety.
• Improve root-cause analysis and incident knowledge bases.
• Evaluate agent architectures and instrument reliable tool execution.
• Collaborate with founders to shape autonomous infrastructure strategy.

Skills

AI agents & LLM tools

LLM reliability & evaluation

Distributed systems

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability

Production AI systems

Job description

SolidRPC is building reliability-first RPC infrastructure for blockchain applications.

Traditional infrastructure monitoring stops at detecting that something is broken.

We want infrastructure that can detect a problem, understand what is happening, take corrective action, verify that the fix worked, and learn from the incident.

AI-driven remediation is a core part of that vision.

We are looking for someone to help build it.

02

The role

We are looking for a Founding AI / Reliability Engineer to build intelligent systems that diagnose and remediate blockchain infrastructure failures automatically.

You will work across AI, distributed systems, observability, SRE, and blockchain infrastructure.

This is not a role focused on building generic chatbots or wrapping an LLM API.

The goal is to build systems capable of making reliable operational decisions in production.

03

What you will do

Build systems around the following loop:

This can include:

• Correlating metrics, logs, traces, node status, and RPC behaviour during incidents.
• Automatically diagnosing degraded blockchain nodes or upstream providers.
• Selecting appropriate remediation actions.
• Restarting, reconfiguring, replacing, or recovering unhealthy infrastructure.
• Rerouting traffic when infrastructure becomes unreliable.
• Verifying whether remediation actually resolved the problem.
• Building guardrails around autonomous remediation.
• Developing incident knowledge and context systems for AI agents.
• Improving root-cause analysis.
• Evaluating models and agent architectures for production operations.
• Building reliable tool execution and orchestration for infrastructure agents.
• Working with blockchain client behaviour, configuration, and eventually client-level fixes.
• Turning recurring incidents into increasingly automated remediation workflows.

What we are looking for

You are likely a strong fit if you have experience in several of these areas:

• AI agents and tool-using LLM systems.
• LLM evaluation and reliability.
• Distributed systems.
• Site Reliability Engineering.
• Observability.
• Production AI systems.

Strong software engineering ability is required.

Experience with blockchain infrastructure is useful but not mandatory if you are comfortable learning it quickly.

We are particularly interested in people who understand that autonomous infrastructure requires much more than prompting an LLM.

You should care about:

• deterministic behaviour where appropriate;
• validation;
• permissions;
• rollback;
• observability;
• confidence scoring;
• testing;

What success looks like

When infrastructure fails, SolidRPC increasingly resolves incidents without requiring a human operator.

The system should become capable of:

• understanding incidents more accurately;
• choosing safe remediation actions;
• executing those actions automatically;
• confirming recovery;
• reducing repeated operational work;

Long term, we want SolidRPC's reliability layer to behave increasingly like an autonomous SRE team.

06

You will have the opportunity to define one of SolidRPC's core technical differentiators from an early stage.

You will work directly with the founders and have substantial influence over how we approach autonomous infrastructure and AI-driven reliability.

As one of our first employees, your compensation will include meaningful stock options through our ESOP , allowing you to participate directly in the company you help build.

Working at SolidRPC

• Remote-first.
• High ownership and autonomy.
• Direct access to the founders.
• Significant influence over product and architecture.
• Work at the intersection of AI, SRE, distributed systems, and blockchain.