Founding Real-Time AI Platform Engineer

uRun; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Full health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement savings

Flexible spending accounts

Paid time off

Access to top-tier AI tools

Hardware such as MacBook Pro and AirPods

Job summary

uRun, located in San Francisco, is looking for a skilled engineer to design and operate a scalable low-latency infrastructure for real-time AI inference. You will build platforms that support interactive workloads, handling GPU-constrained and bursty scenarios while ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

With over 7 years of engineering experience, you should have deep Kubernetes expertise and a strong background in cloud services. This role offers competitive salary, health benefits, and equity in an early-stage AI company.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as an engineer with experience in large-scale production systems.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, particularly with GPU-heavy clusters.
• Solid knowledge of cloud services like AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and evolve the cloud-native platform for real-time inference.
• Ensure reliability and performance at scale with observability standards.
• Collaborate with ML teams to optimize workflows for low-latency tasks.

Skills

Cloud-native platform design

Kubernetes expertise

Observability practices

Latency optimization

Python/Go/TypeScript programming

Mentoring

GPU-optimized workloads

Real-time systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

uRun, located in San Francisco, is looking for a skilled engineer to design and operate a scalable low-latency infrastructure for real-time AI inference. You will build platforms that support interactive workloads, handling GPU-constrained and bursty scenarios while ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

With over 7 years of engineering experience, you should have deep Kubernetes expertise and a strong background in cloud services. This role offers competitive salary, health benefits, and equity in an early-stage AI company.