Senior Platform & Data Infrastructure Engineer

Thomas Talent Network; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential client, a Series A AI research lab in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Platform. You will design and build the core infrastructure powering data generation, evaluation, and agentic systems, with ownership of scalable, reliable pipelines used to train frontier AI models.

This highly technical role collaborates with the founding team to define system architecture, establish engineering best practices, and deliver reusable infrastructure for

Qualifications

• Design and implement shared infrastructure for data generation pipelines and AI workflows.
• Build scalable, high-throughput systems with strong observability.
• Collaborate with researchers to define architecture and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop shared infrastructure for data generation and evaluation pipelines
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and high-throughput
• Create reusable APIs for researchers and product engineers
• Design observability and fault-tolerance for production workloads
• Define long-term architecture across data pipelines, compute, and storage
• Collaborate with researchers to support new AI experimentation workflows

Job description

Confidential client, a Series A AI research lab in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Platform. You will design and build the core infrastructure powering data generation, evaluation, and agentic systems, with ownership of scalable, reliable pipelines used to train frontier AI models.

This highly technical role collaborates with the founding team to define system architecture, establish engineering best practices, and deliver reusable infrastructure for