Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Autonomous Research

Recruiting From Scratch; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Flexible work arrangements

Conference attendance

Publication support

Competitive equity package

Job summary

Autoscience Institute seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join as an early senior engineering hire, shaping the systems behind autonomous AI research. You will own architecture, build production Python systems, and drive recursive self-improvement workflows powering Mira and related autonomous research capabilities.

You will collaborate with researchers and founders, own major projects end-to-end, and move quickly from experimentation to production with minimal handholding in a tiny,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related technical field preferred.
• Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals.
• Advanced technical depth in algorithms, systems, AI/ML, or infrastructure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize the recursive self-improvement pipeline powering Mira.
• Develop production systems that enable autonomous AI research.
• Build and improve the agentic discovery search system.
• Develop robust post-training infrastructure for customer-specific AI models.
• Build systems for training and fine-tuning models based on customer requirements.
• Write high-performance Python algorithms focused on improving autonomous research speed
• Optimize production systems for performance, reliability, and scalability
• Translate experimental research ideas into production-ready engineering systems
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers and engineers on new autonomous research capabilities
• Design and implement backend infrastructure supporting autonomous AI workflows
• Improve the reliability and observability of AI research systems
• Debug complex production systems and identify performance bottlenecks
• Own major technical projects from initial architecture through production deployment
• Make architecture and technical direction decisions as one of the earliest senior engineers
• Build infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly sophisticated AI research agents
• Work closely with the founding team to shape the technical roadmap
• Establish engineering practices that maintain code quality as the company scales
• Operate with high autonomy and move quickly from experimentation to production
• Help define the engineering foundation for recursive AI research systems

Skills

Python engineering

Backend engineering

AI/ML systems

Production observability

Performance optimization

Systems design

Cloud infrastructure (GCP)

Debugging

Research-to-production mindset

Autonomous AI research systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

GCP

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Autoscience Institute seeks a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join as an early senior engineering hire, shaping the systems behind autonomous AI research. You will own architecture, build production Python systems, and drive recursive self-improvement workflows powering Mira and related autonomous research capabilities.

You will collaborate with researchers and founders, own major projects end-to-end, and move quickly from experimentation to production with minimal handholding in a tiny,