Founding SRE Lead: AI Infra & GPU Scaling

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

present of AI is seeking a founding infrastructure leader to own the cloud estate end-to-end, coordinating Terraform and ECS on AWS and GCP. You will scale GPU capacity for AI workloads while balancing speed, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes on-site reliability, DevOps depth, and security‑driven engineering decisions. The ideal candidate will manage uptime, monitoring, and incident response, while building CI/CD and environments that let a small team move fast.

Qualifications

• Hands-on site reliability and DevOps depth.
• Comfort with ambiguity and bias toward action.
• Ability to treat security/compliance as engineering problems.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud estate end-to-end from Terraform/ECS on AWS/GCP.
• Provision and scale GPU capacity for AI workloads.
• Maintain uptime, monitoring, and incident response.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and environments for a fast-moving small team.
• Ensure CJIS/FedRAMP readiness and secure data handling.

Skills

On-site reliability

DevOps depth

Automation & SRE

Monitoring & incident response

Security & compliance mindset

Tools

Terraform

ECS

AWS

GCP

Job description

present of AI is seeking a founding infrastructure leader to own the cloud estate end-to-end, coordinating Terraform and ECS on AWS and GCP. You will scale GPU capacity for AI workloads while balancing speed, reliability, and cost.

The role emphasizes on-site reliability, DevOps depth, and security‑driven engineering decisions. The ideal candidate will manage uptime, monitoring, and incident response, while building CI/CD and environments that let a small team move fast.