Founding Platform Engineer — AI Inference Cloud

General Compute; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

General Compute is building the inference cloud—control plane, API, and serving layer that turn racks into a sellable product. You will own the core platform, with no legacy system to constrain you, and will define how a heterogeneous mix of ASICs/GPUs gets scheduled and served reliably.

You will be a founding technical voice, working closely with data center deployment and model bring-up teams, shaping reliability and scale from day one.

Qualifications

• Strong systems engineering background on cloud control planes/serving infra at scale.
• Comfort being a high-impact IC rather than a manager.
• Track record building reliability from scratch.
• Comfort with hardware heterogeneity/ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Build/own the control plane — routing, model placement, scheduling across a mixed ASIC/GPU pool.
• Build the API and serving layer exposing rack capacity as a sellable product.
• Build in reliability and observability from day one.
• Scale the platform ahead of the demand curve.
• Partner closely with data center deployment and model bring-up teams.
• Be a founding technical voice on platform architecture.

Skills

Control planes

Systems engineering

Reliability by design

Hardware heterogeneity

Job description

General Compute is building the inference cloud—control plane, API, and serving layer that turn racks into a sellable product. You will own the core platform, with no legacy system to constrain you, and will define how a heterogeneous mix of ASICs/GPUs gets scheduled and served reliably.

You will be a founding technical voice, working closely with data center deployment and model bring-up teams, shaping reliability and scale from day one.