Principal AI Infra Platform Architect (Kubernetes)

Edison Scientific, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Full healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

Edison Scientific, Inc. is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to lead the platform infrastructure that powers autonomous scientific discovery.

You will design, scale, and operate Kubernetes-based systems, build CRDs and operators, and ensure reliable compute orchestration for AI agents and long-running workloads. Collaborating with backend, ML, and research teams, you will shape infrastructure best practices, drive scaling strategies, and implement observability and security across

Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience in production environments.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise and experience with CRDs and operators.
• Experience operating and scaling clusters with thousands of resources.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals and cloud networking.
• Proficiency in at least one systems language for operator development.
• Hands-on with IaC tools and GitOps workflows.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate Kubernetes clusters for thousands of concurrent resources.
• Design CRDs and operators to model long-running AI workloads and pipelines.
• Drive cluster scaling strategies, node pools, autoscaling, and quotas.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for reproducible environments.
• Develop robust scheduling, placement, and affinity for heterogeneous workloads.
• Establish observability, monitoring, and incident response for infra systems.
• Own storage and networking strategy in Kubernetes, including CSI and network policies.
• Troubleshoot complex distributed infrastructure issues and guide teams.
• Collaborate with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload needs into infra patterns.

Skills

Kubernetes expert

CRDs & Operators

Cluster scaling

IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)

GitOps

Cloud networking

Security (RBAC, PSP)

Programming for operators

Tools

Kubebuilder

Operator SDK

Terraform/Pulumi

Crossplane

Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog

CSI/Storage

Job description

Edison Scientific, Inc. is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to lead the platform infrastructure that powers autonomous scientific discovery.

You will design, scale, and operate Kubernetes-based systems, build CRDs and operators, and ensure reliable compute orchestration for AI agents and long-running workloads. Collaborating with backend, ML, and research teams, you will shape infrastructure best practices, drive scaling strategies, and implement observability and security across