Frontier Cloud Engineer: AI Coding Agents

Obsidian; New York (NY); Remote; USD 551,000 - 1,102,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking contributors to join a Frontier Code Agents project focusing on infrastructure engineering tasks and model evaluation. You will review model-generated infrastructure work, evaluate reliability, and flag edge cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on assessment of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, with task-based compensation. Prospective candidates have 2+ years in DevOps/SRE or cloud engineering and familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Use frontier AI coding agents to complete and evaluate complex infrastructure tasks.
• Review model-generated implementations across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability.
• Identify bugs, edge cases, reliability issues and failure modes.
• Compare outputs from multiple frontier models and assess strengths and weaknesses.
• Apply professional engineering judgment to realistic infra scenarios.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Obsidian is seeking contributors to join a Frontier Code Agents project focusing on infrastructure engineering tasks and model evaluation. You will review model-generated infrastructure work, evaluate reliability, and flag edge cases.

The role emphasizes hands-on assessment of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, with task-based compensation. Prospective candidates have 2+ years in DevOps/SRE or cloud engineering and familiarity with AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD