Senior AI Infra Architect for Autonomous Systems

The Rundown AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The Rundown AI, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the AI and data platform development. This role focuses on scaling architectures for autonomy programs, ensuring efficient model training and deployment.

Success requires a blend of technical expertise and strategic vision in maintaining system reliability while optimizing costs. You will work across multi-modal sensor data and drive conditions for successful operational deployments.

The position offers an engaging opportunity to shape how cutting-edge technology supports the defense sector.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating ML infrastructure at scale (100+ GPU clusters, distributed systems).
• Experience defining compute strategy, including on‑premise vs cloud tradeoffs, capacity planning, and cost management.
• Strong understanding of ML workloads, including foundation models, RL/MARL, simulation‑based training, and fine‑tuning.
• Experience building data platforms with dataset versioning, lineage, and cataloging.
• Ability to debug and resolve system issues when needed.

Responsibilities

• Define and operate the core AI and data platform across training, simulation, data management, evaluation, and deployment.
• Own where and how workloads run across on‑premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Build infrastructure for distributed training and large‑scale, multi‑fidelity simulation.
• Ingest and manage multi‑modal sensor data and establish a data platform.
• Establish a consistent workflow for experiment tracking, model registry, and validation.
• Own the pipeline from training to deployment, including model optimization and monitoring.
• Define how AI infrastructure is deployed in customer environments.
• Work directly with Hivemind and other autonomy teams.

Skills

Building and operating ML infrastructure at scale

Defining compute strategy

Strong understanding of ML workloads

Building data platforms

Debugging and resolving system issues

Job description

The Rundown AI, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the AI and data platform development. This role focuses on scaling architectures for autonomy programs, ensuring efficient model training and deployment.

Success requires a blend of technical expertise and strategic vision in maintaining system reliability while optimizing costs. You will work across multi-modal sensor data and drive conditions for successful operational deployments.

The position offers an engaging opportunity to shape how cutting-edge technology supports the defense sector.