Staff Engineer, Agentic Infra — Build Reliable LLM Systems

Socket.dev; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous PTO & sick leave

Parental leave

Learning & development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking an engineer to own and evolve a stack of agentic systems, including SybilClaw, yapCAD, and related infrastructure. You will deploy, operate, and scale prototypes into production-grade systems, collaborating with forward-deployed engineers to deliver reliable compute and security-critical services.

The role requires deploying an agentic harness in real work environments, ensuring reliability and reproducibility, and packaging components for internal and customer

Qualifications

• Strong Linux and macOS systems experience, including debugging services, processes, storage, permissions, and networking.
• Experience operating physical infrastructure, VMs, or containers in production.
• Meaningful experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of our agentic infrastructure: agents, sessions, model routing, context pipelines, inter-agent communication, and supporting services.
• Build and maintain infrastructure where good off-the-shelf solutions don't yet exist.
• Deploy and operate local LLM inference across Mac Studio and GPU hardware.
• Manage Linux/macOS systems, Proxmox VMs and containers, storage, backups, and recovery.
• Maintain multi-site networking including L3 routing, VLANs, DNS, firewalls, and connectivity.
• Build CLIs, dashboards, automation, and internal tools that make engineers faster.
• Improve observability, debugging, and automated failure recovery.
• Contribute upstream to open-source projects we rely on.
• Help design practical security around local compute, data handling, and access controls.
• Package and deploy portions of the stack into internal and customer environments.
• Work directly with engineers to understand what they need and turn recurring problems into better infrastructure.

Skills

Linux

macOS

Networking

Automation

Scripting/CLI

Open-source

Tools

Proxmox

Virtual Machines

Job description

Relativity Space is seeking an engineer to own and evolve a stack of agentic systems, including SybilClaw, yapCAD, and related infrastructure. You will deploy, operate, and scale prototypes into production-grade systems, collaborating with forward-deployed engineers to deliver reliable compute and security-critical services.

The role requires deploying an agentic harness in real work environments, ensuring reliability and reproducibility, and packaging components for internal and customer