Staff Engineer: Heterogeneous Runtime & Placement

General Diffusion, Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

General Diffusion, Inc. seeks a Member of Technical Staff to own the execution contract for cross-target workloads. You will ensure visible, reversible runtime actions and rejects infeasible targets before ranking candidates.

Collaboration with compiler, GPU systems, and safety teams shapes capability and guardrail signals. You will design guarded rollout, canary, and rollback mechanisms, and document end-to-end traces from request through placement to outcome, enabling auditability and safe

Qualifications

• Experience shipping or operating a scheduler, inference-serving system, or distributed runtime.
• Judgment on heterogeneous workload lifecycles: compatibility, admission, failure and recovery.
• Ability to formalize constraints into explicit contracts and observable state transitions.

Responsibilities

• Define the execution contract mapping workload requirements to target capabilities and runtime checks.
• Build runtime and control-plane paths linking workloads to targets with safe fallback.
• Ensure decisions are inspectable by capturing eligibility, target, context, actions, and outcomes.
• Develop conformance tests and canary/recovery drills for partial failures feature guards.

Skills

Scheduler experience

Distributed systems

Telemetry & debugging

Guarried rollout design

Tools

Tracing systems

Canary tooling

Observability platforms

Job description

General Diffusion, Inc. seeks a Member of Technical Staff to own the execution contract for cross-target workloads. You will ensure visible, reversible runtime actions and rejects infeasible targets before ranking candidates.

Collaboration with compiler, GPU systems, and safety teams shapes capability and guardrail signals. You will design guarded rollout, canary, and rollback mechanisms, and document end-to-end traces from request through placement to outcome, enabling auditability and safe