Senior Platform Infra Engineer — Scalable AI Supercompute

Maven Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, Vision, and Dental insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

SpaceXSI is building a large-scale distributed system powering one of the world’s largest supercomputing clusters. You will dive into the low-level stack to profile, debug, and optimize performance across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems to achieve peak efficiency.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and algorithm teams to push AI training boundaries, maintain scalable codebases, and develop tools to boost team productivity in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of systems programming experience in C, C++, or Rust.
• Experience with Kubernetes (cluster architecture, pod lifecycle, networking, storage, service mesh, and production-grade operations).
• Strong debugging skills across the full stack from kernel to container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and implement a large-scale distributed system.
• Profile, debug, and optimize performance across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems.
• Collaborate on hardware-software co-design to push AI training boundaries.
• Maintain and innovate on codebase for scalability and reliability.
• Develop tools to enhance team productivity and streamline workflows.

Skills

Systems programming

C/C++/Rust

Kernel/OS internals

Performance analysis

Networking (TCP/IP)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

GitOps

Job description

SpaceXSI is building a large-scale distributed system powering one of the world’s largest supercomputing clusters. You will dive into the low-level stack to profile, debug, and optimize performance across GPUs, Linux kernel, networking, and filesystems to achieve peak efficiency.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and algorithm teams to push AI training boundaries, maintain scalable codebases, and develop tools to boost team productivity in a fast-paced environment.