Staff Engineer, Frontier AI Compute Platform

Primeintellect; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Prime Intellect in San Francisco is building the open frontier AI platform Lab, a full‑stack system unifying compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, and production-scale training workflows. This hybrid role spans our AI platform software engineering and infrastructure, enabling frontier research and real‑world deployment.

You will implement intuitive web interfaces, develop REST APIs in Python, design distributed training infra in Rust, and build tooling for resource management,

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python for backend services.
• Experience with TypeScript/React for frontend.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs.
• Experience building developer tools and dashboards.
• Strong debugging and observability skills.

Responsibilities

• Build intuitive web interfaces for AI workload management and monitoring.
• Develop REST APIs and backend services.
• Create real-time monitoring and debugging tools.
• Implement resource management and job control features.
• Design distributed training infrastructure and orchestration components.
• Automate infrastructure pipelines with Ansible.
• Manage cloud resources and container orchestration.

Skills

Python backend

Frontend development

REST APIs

DevOps

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Prime Intellect in San Francisco is building the open frontier AI platform Lab, a full‑stack system unifying compute, environments, evaluations, secure sandboxes, and production-scale training workflows. This hybrid role spans our AI platform software engineering and infrastructure, enabling frontier research and real‑world deployment.

You will implement intuitive web interfaces, develop REST APIs in Python, design distributed training infra in Rust, and build tooling for resource management,