Staff AI Training Infrastructure Engineer

Designworks Talent; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Job summary

Designworks Talent is seeking an AI Training Infrastructure Engineer for a hybrid role in the Bellevue, WA area. You will build and scale distributed training infrastructure powering large AI models across multi-node GPU clusters and production pipelines.

Work with platform, orchestration, performance, and ML teams to improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability. Responsibilities include fault-tolerance, checkpointing, recovery, and developing developer tools to streamline AI research

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building distributed training systems.
• Experience with large AI models and production ML pipelines.
• Ability to optimize multi-node GPU training for reliability and efficiency.
• Proven track record delivering scalable ML infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale distributed training infrastructure supporting large AI models across GPU clusters.
• Design and improve systems for training reliability, efficiency, and resource utilization.
• Develop fault tolerance, checkpointing, and recovery for large-scale training.
• Integrate training systems with production ML pipelines in cross-functional teams.
• Diagnose and resolve bottlenecks affecting throughput, stability, and cost efficiency.
• Create tools and automation to improve researcher and engineer productivity.
• Establish best practices for training infra and platform reliability.
• Contribute to evolving the AI infra platform as an early engineering team member.

Skills

Distributed training

GPU clusters

Python

Multi-node systems

Production ML pipelines

Tools

PyTorch Distributed

DeepSpeed

Kubernetes

GPU virtualization

Job description

AI Training Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Hybrid | Bellevue, WA Area
Titles: Senior and Staff (multiple roles available)

Build the Training Infrastructure Powering Next-Generation AI Models

About the Opportunity

A well-funded, rapidly growing AI infrastructure company is building a next-generation cloud platform designed to power the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence. The organization is developing a comprehensive AI infrastructure, platform, and services portfolio that supports the full spectrum of AI workloads—including large-scale compute, model training, fine-tuning, inference, and emerging agentic AI applications.

Backed by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization. Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging modern tooling and automation to build infrastructure capable of supporting the industry's most demanding AI workloads.

We're seeking AI Training Infrastructure Engineers to build and scale the distributed systems that power large-scale AI model training. This team focuses on reliability, efficiency, and operational excellence across GPU clusters, enabling researchers and engineers to train and deploy advanced AI models at scale.

The Opportunity

This is a foundational engineering role focused on building the infrastructure layer behind large-scale AI training workloads. You'll work on distributed training systems, GPU clusters, model pipelines, and the tooling required to make AI development more reliable, efficient, and scalable.

You'll collaborate closely with infrastructure, orchestration, performance, and machine learning teams to solve complex challenges around distributed computing, fault tolerance, training efficiency, and production readiness.

This opportunity is ideal for engineers who enjoy building highly scalable systems and working at the intersection of AI research, infrastructure engineering, and distributed computing.

What You'll Do

• Build and scale distributed training infrastructure supporting large AI models across large GPU clusters.

• Design and improve systems that increase training reliability, efficiency, and resource utilization.

• Develop solutions for fault tolerance, checkpointing, recovery, and large-scale training operations.

• Integrate AI models into production training pipelines in partnership with platform, orchestration, and performance engineering teams.

• Diagnose and resolve issues impacting training throughput, stability, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Build tools and automation that improve the developer experience for AI researchers and engineers.

• Establish best practices for training infrastructure, operational processes, and platform reliability.

• Contribute to the evolution of the AI infrastructure platform as an early member of the engineering team.

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience building and operating distributed training systems or large-scale machine learning infrastructure.

• Experience supporting large AI models, foundation models, post-training workflows, or similar ML systems.

• Strong understanding of the reliability, scalability, and efficiency challenges associated with multi-node GPU training.

• Experience integrating training systems with production machine learning pipelines.

• Strong programming skills and experience working with complex distributed systems.

• Ability to independently own technically challenging projects in a fast-moving engineering environment.

• Comfortable operating with high ownership and limited process overhead.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, Ray, or similar technologies.

• Experience with supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), or other post-training workflows.

• Background operating AI training infrastructure at scale within a hyperscaler, AI research organization, cloud provider, or GPU cloud environment.

• Experience optimizing GPU utilization, training performance, or distributed system reliability.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized AI workloads, and large-scale infrastructure platforms.

Compensation

• Competitive base pay for Bellevue market

• Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and long term incentives. These awards are allocated based on individual performance

• U.S. based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, employees also receive per calendar year, paid holidays

Location

• Hybrid role based in the Bellevue, WA area.

• Approximately three days per week in the office.

• Candidates elsewhere in the U.S. who are open to relocation are encouraged to apply.

• U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not currently available.

Why Join?

• Build the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI models and applications.

• Work directly on distributed training systems, GPU clusters, and large-scale AI platforms.

• Solve some of the industry's most challenging problems around AI scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

• Join early enough to influence architecture, tooling, and engineering practices.

• Collaborate with a highly experienced team building critical AI infrastructure from the ground up.

• Enjoy the ownership and technical impact of a startup environment backed by significant long-term investment.