Senior GPU Systems Engineer for AI Sandbox Platform

nineDots.io; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity offered

Relocation considered

Job summary

nineDots.io is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build secure GPU sandbox environments and scalable GPU compute platforms. You will help define architecture and drive the stack from KVM/QEMU to CUDA lifecycle, ensuring isolation, security, and reliability for AI agents.

You’ll work across GPU virtualization, Linux kernel, and graphics drivers, with opportunities to influence software foundations and performance-critical paths in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company.

Qualifications

• Experience with virtualization and device isolation in production environments.
• Deep knowledge of GPU virtualization stacks and Linux kernel interactions.
• Ability to trace failures across hypervisor, drivers and hardware.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and drive GPU sandbox platform design.
• Work across KVM/QEMU, VFIO, PCIe isolation, and CUDA lifecycle.
• Operate GPUs in production and troubleshoot end-to-end failures.
• Develop health monitoring, automated recovery, and performance improvements.
• Shape GPU-aware scheduling and bin-packing strategies.

Skills

KVM/QEMU

GPU passthrough

VFIO/IOMMU

PCIe isolation

NVIDIA drivers

CUDA lifecycle

Hypervisor debugging

Linux kernel

Go

Rust

C/C++

Production GPUs

Cloud hypersvisor

Job description

nineDots.io is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build secure GPU sandbox environments and scalable GPU compute platforms. You will help define architecture and drive the stack from KVM/QEMU to CUDA lifecycle, ensuring isolation, security, and reliability for AI agents.

You’ll work across GPU virtualization, Linux kernel, and graphics drivers, with opportunities to influence software foundations and performance-critical paths in a fast-growing AI infrastructure company.