Staff Platform Engineer, AI Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Prime Intellect AI is building the open frontier AI stack, combining platform software engineering with scalable infrastructure for cutting-edge AI workloads. The role spans across platform development, backend services, and distributed training infrastructure, focusing on Python, Rust, and cloud-native tooling.

You will design intuitive interfaces, REST APIs, real-time monitoring, and scheduling for heterogeneous hardware, collaborating with researchers to push frontier models while ensuring

Qualifications

• Strong Python backend development with FastAPI or similar.
• Frontend experience with TypeScript and React/Next.js.
• Experience building developer tools and dashboards.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).
• Familiarity with Rust and systems programming.
• Infrastructure automation with Ansible or Terraform.
• Observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Build intuitive web interfaces for AI workload management.
• Develop REST APIs and backend services in Python.
• Create real-time monitoring and debugging tools.
• Design distributed training infrastructure in Rust.

Skills

Python backend

TypeScript

React/Next.js

Kubernetes

Rust

Ansible/Terraform

REST APIs

GCP

Observability

WebSocket

Tools

FastAPI

Job description

Prime Intellect AI is building the open frontier AI stack, combining platform software engineering with scalable infrastructure for cutting-edge AI workloads. The role spans across platform development, backend services, and distributed training infrastructure, focusing on Python, Rust, and cloud-native tooling.

You will design intuitive interfaces, REST APIs, real-time monitoring, and scheduling for heterogeneous hardware, collaborating with researchers to push frontier models while ensuring