Research Platform Engineer

Ndea; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Compute budget

Remote team

Job summary

Ndea in Seattle, WA is seeking a senior, end-to-end platform engineer to design, build, operate, and improve internal research infrastructure. Your customers are human researchers and their agents, and you’ll build tools and workflows for both.

Your mission is to shorten the loop from “a researcher has an idea” to “the experiment ran reliably and produced rigorous and transparent results.” This is a high-ownership role at the frontier of neuro-symbolic AI, helping define how humans and AI agents

Qualifications

• Experience running distributed, compute-intensive workloads with containers and high concurrency.
• Experience making long-running workloads reliable, checkpointable, resumable, and debuggable.
• Strong observability skills spanning structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and production debugging.
• Experience building backend systems with technologies such as Postgres and object storage.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, such as AWS or GCP.
• Fluency with Linux, Bash, and command-line tooling.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Growing fluency with coding agents and an interest in building codebases, tools, and feedback loops that help agents work effectively.
• Genuine interest in symbolic AI.

Skills

Linux

Bash

CLI tooling

Distributed compute

Debugging

Observability

Symbolic AI interest

Coding agents

Tools

Postgres

Object storage

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

GCP

Job description

Technical Staff - Platform
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Type: Full-time

Ndea is building AGI systems that depend on search guidance.

We're looking for a senior, end-to-end platform engineer who can design, build, operate, and improve internal research infrastructure. Your customers are human researchers (including you!) and their agents. You'll build tools and workflows for both.

Your mission is to shorten the loop from “a researcher has an idea” to “the experiment ran reliably and produced rigorous and transparent results.”

This is a high-ownership role for someone excited to build at the frontier of neuro-symbolic AI - and help define how humans and AI agents engineer complex systems together.

We offer:

• Meaningful equity, competitive salary, and benefits
• Aggressive compute budget
• Small, high-talent-density, globally remote team

Ndea is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

• Experience running distributed, compute-intensive workloads involving containers, high concurrency, CPU/GPU allocation, timeouts, transient failures, and memory constraints
• Experience making long-running workloads reliable, checkpointable, resumable, and debuggable
• Strong observability skills spanning structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and production debugging
• Experience building backend systems with technologies such as Postgres and object storage
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud platform, such as AWS or GCP
• Fluency with Linux, Bash, and command-line tooling
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools
• Growing fluency with coding agents and an interest in building codebases, tools, and feedback loops that help agents work effectively
• Genuine interest in symbolic AI

Nice-to-have:

• Experience operating in an early-stage startup
• Experience owning production systems at significant scale
• Hands-on exposure to program synthesis, inductive logic programming, Answer Set Programming, Datalog,SAT/SMT solving, or related formal methods
• Experience with network engineering, private networking, and secure service access