Staff AI Platform Engineer — Open-Source Infra

Prime Intellect; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Open-source contributions encouraged

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building a platform that unifies AI workloads, compute, environments, and monitoring for frontier-scale models. This hybrid role spans platform software engineering and infrastructure, focusing on Python-based backend services, real-time tooling, and scalable training infrastructure.

You’ll contribute to development of REST APIs, real-time dashboards, and backend features while collaborating across engineering to ensure reliability and security as we open-source and

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python for backend systems (FastAPI, async) and API services.
• Frontend skills with modern frameworks (TypeScript, React/Next.js).
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop intuitive web interfaces for AI workload management and monitoring.
• Build REST APIs and backend services; support real-time debugging tools.
• Design distributed training infra, automation pipelines, and resource management features.

Skills

Python backend

TypeScript/React

Rust

Kubernetes

GCP

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Prime Intellect is building a platform that unifies AI workloads, compute, environments, and monitoring for frontier-scale models. This hybrid role spans platform software engineering and infrastructure, focusing on Python-based backend services, real-time tooling, and scalable training infrastructure.

You’ll contribute to development of REST APIs, real-time dashboards, and backend features while collaborating across engineering to ensure reliability and security as we open-source and