GenAI Infra Lead: Cloud, Kubernetes & IaC Specialist

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

W-2 Employment

AI training infra exposure

Job summary

Join a leading AI lab's GenAI team via Cincinnatus LLC to help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We’re seekingCloud and DevOps Engineers with hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, and IaC expertise to support training and inference infrastructure.

This is a full-time W-2 role with Cincinnatus LLC, offering placement at a top AI lab as part of the extended workforce. Expect involvement in cluster diagnosis, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration with researchers to advance model performance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional cloud/DevOps experience at a top-tier organization.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience including diagnosing cluster failures.
• Production experience with Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
• Direct experience integrating AWS services in production (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB).
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrable career progression.
• Ability to engage reliably for at least 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong written communication and ability to explain complex technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, and IaC topics.
• Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks, and write accurate solutions to cluster diagnosis, AWS service integration, and infrastructure automation problems.
• Evaluate infrastructure engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.
• Develop guidelines and rubrics/evaluation frameworks to assess cluster failure diagnosis, IaC design quality, and CI/CD pipeline reasoning across tasks.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure training data accuracy.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS CDK

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

DynamoDB

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

Site reliability

Job description

Join a leading AI lab's GenAI team via Cincinnatus LLC to help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We’re seekingCloud and DevOps Engineers with hands-on Kubernetes, AWS, and IaC expertise to support training and inference infrastructure.

This is a full-time W-2 role with Cincinnatus LLC, offering placement at a top AI lab as part of the extended workforce. Expect involvement in cluster diagnosis, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration with researchers to advance model performance.