Platform & IaC Engineer for AI Hardware Infra

Ricursive Intelligence; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricursive Intelligence in Palo Alto is seeking an experienced Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to own IaC, CI/CD, and cloud platforms for a fast-growing AI research lab. You will design and operate self-managed cloud infrastructure, implement observability, and collaborate with PD engineers to keep research pipelines reliable, secure, and scalable in a mission-driven startup environment.

You will work with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and GCP, ensuring reproducible deployments and

Qualifications

• BS in CS, CE, EE or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on infrastructure/platform engineering, with ownership of systems others depend on.
• Owned production IaC architecture including maintenance and new features, not just consumed modules.
• Designed and implemented production CI/CD pipelines that build and ship reproducible artifacts, with attention to performance, scalability, and security.
• Prior experience with observability tooling for monitoring pipeline health as well as application-level metrics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build out and extend our self-managed cloud platform with Terraform, setting the IaC patterns the rest of the team builds on.
• Own our platform deployments spanning various environments day to day, including performance, security, reliability, scalability, and adapting to evolving business requirements.
• Design, implement, and operate CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for mission-critical repositories, working within strict security and deployment restrictions.
• Architect scalable AI tooling and developer experience workflows across multiple distinct user environments, working closely with our physical design (PD) engineers.
• Build out the observability stack with the team, covering pipeline health, application-level metrics, and ML workloads.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Security awareness

Automation

Education

BS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ricursive Intelligence in Palo Alto is seeking an experienced Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to own IaC, CI/CD, and cloud platforms for a fast-growing AI research lab. You will design and operate self-managed cloud infrastructure, implement observability, and collaborate with PD engineers to keep research pipelines reliable, secure, and scalable in a mission-driven startup environment.

You will work with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and GCP, ensuring reproducible deployments and