Principal AI Infrastructure & Platform Lead

TSMC; Washington; On-site; USD 167,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Onsite fitness amenities

Job summary

TSMC Washington is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager (AI Infrastructure) to lead a high-performing team building enterprise AI infrastructure. The role combines deep technical leadership in AI platforms with people management across North America and Taiwan.

You will architect scalable AI services, drive Kubernetes-based platforms, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, high-throughput infrastructure for internal and external foundation models.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading architecture for distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years hands-on experience designing enterprise AI platforms.
• 3+ years of formal people management experience (managing teams of senior/staff engineers).
• Strong technical communication skills for collaborating with global cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Hire, lead, and develop a world-class team of AI infrastructure and distributed systems engineers.
• Define AI Platform Architecture and drive long-term technical direction.
• Build scalable AI infrastructure for LLM serving, GPU scheduling, and model lifecycle management.
• Design distributed systems for high availability, multi-region deployment, and DR.
• Drive engineering best practices for Kubernetes, Platform-as-a-Service, and AI deployment automation.
• Define technical strategy across multiple teams and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

People leadership

Go

Python

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

AI platform design

Cloud infrastructure

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

ArgoCD

Triton Inference Server

Ray

Kubeflow

MLflow

Job description

TSMC Washington is seeking a Principal Software Engineer Manager (AI Infrastructure) to lead a high-performing team building enterprise AI infrastructure. The role combines deep technical leadership in AI platforms with people management across North America and Taiwan.

You will architect scalable AI services, drive Kubernetes-based platforms, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable, high-throughput infrastructure for internal and external foundation models.