Senior Systems Engineer - Low-Latency AI Compute Platform

Dedalus Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Equity

Job summary

Dedalus Labs in San Francisco is hiring systems engineers to build the compute substrate for an agent-native economy. You will work on core primitives, virtualization, isolation, and storage for long-running AI agents, delivering low-latency and reliable infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end development in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are offered, with a competitive salary, bonus, and meaningful equity.

Qualifications

• Experience building substantial systems software in Rust, Go, C, or C++ or similar languages.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, concurrency, memory, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop core compute and runtime primitives for long-running AI agents.
• Contribute to virtualization, sandboxing, and isolation for multi-tenant workloads.
• Build low-latency scheduling and resource-management systems.
• Create profiling, debugging, and performance tooling for production systems.

Skills

Rust/Go/C/C++

CS fundamentals

OS/Distributed systems

Owner mindset

Debugging systems

Performance tuning

Tools

KVM

Firecracker

Job description

Dedalus Labs in San Francisco is hiring systems engineers to build the compute substrate for an agent-native economy. You will work on core primitives, virtualization, isolation, and storage for long-running AI agents, delivering low-latency and reliable infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end development in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are offered, with a competitive salary, bonus, and meaningful equity.