Platform Architect for AI Infra | Remote + Equity

TalentPluto, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

TalentPluto, Inc. is partnering with an early-stage AI infrastructure startup to hire the second engineering hire who will own the platform. You will be responsible for the entire platform engineering vertical, including the user interface, backend services, customer onboarding, fraud detection, VM onboarding and Kubernetes.

This role offers real autonomy, meaningful equity and the chance to shape a platform from its foundations in a highly technical, fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of software engineering experience.
• Full-stack capability across UI, backend and Kubernetes or platform infrastructure.
• Prior startup experience and a track record of owning a system end to end.
• Demonstrated ability to make significant technical decisions autonomously.
• Experience with GPU infrastructure, bare-metal orchestration or high-performance computing is strongly preferred.
• Willingness to work the demanding hours of an early-stage company.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform engineering vertical end to end, from UI to infrastructure.
• Build and operate backend services and Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure.
• Design customer onboarding, virtual machine onboarding and fraud detection systems.
• Make architecture, tooling and vendor decisions independently within agreed constraints.
• Deliver against high-level goals and communicate approach and outcomes to the team.
• Operate costly compute infrastructure responsibly and confidently.

Skills

Full-stack development

UI

Backend

Kubernetes

GPU infrastructure

High-performance computing

Startup experience

Autonomous work

Job description

TalentPluto, Inc. is partnering with an early-stage AI infrastructure startup to hire the second engineering hire who will own the platform. You will be responsible for the entire platform engineering vertical, including the user interface, backend services, customer onboarding, fraud detection, VM onboarding and Kubernetes.

This role offers real autonomy, meaningful equity and the chance to shape a platform from its foundations in a highly technical, fast-moving environment.