Lead Fleet Operations Engineer for AI Compute Infra

Ornn AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Health coverage

Free meals

Leadership role with equity upside

Job summary

Ornn is hiring a Fleet Operations Engineer to stand up, debug, and secure systems that get GPUs into production. You will build low-level infrastructure across Linux, from bare metal to VMs and orchestration, and manage GPU compute with Kubernetes and Slurm.

You will write production-grade Python, contribute to Rust services, and secure the node fleet with segmentation, firewalls, and access control. This leadership role offers meaningful equity and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong low-level systems fundamentals, OS internals, performance, and debugging.
• Excellent in Python.
• Deep familiarity with Linux environments.
• Effective communicator and independent problem solver.
• Interest in AI hardware: GPUs and accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate low‑level systems infrastructure across Linux environments, from bare metal to VMs to orchestration.
• Provision and manage virtualized GPU compute (KVM/QEMU, GPU passthrough) alongside Kubernetes and Slurm workloads.
• Write production-grade Python daily and contribute to Rust services.
• Secure the node fleet with network segmentation, firewalls, access control, and secure-by-default configuration.
• Own problems end to end in a fast-paced environment with minimal hand-holding.

Skills

Low‑level systems

Python

Linux

Communication

Problem solving

AI hardware

Tools

KVM/QEMU

Hypervisors

VM lifecycle

VPNs

Zero-trust

Firewalls

Job description

Ornn is hiring a Fleet Operations Engineer to stand up, debug, and secure systems that get GPUs into production. You will build low-level infrastructure across Linux, from bare metal to VMs and orchestration, and manage GPU compute with Kubernetes and Slurm.

You will write production-grade Python, contribute to Rust services, and secure the node fleet with segmentation, firewalls, and access control. This leadership role offers meaningful equity and growth opportunities.