Staff Platform Engineer - Infra, Tools, and MLOps

NeoCognition Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NeoCognition Inc. is looking for a Member of Technical Staff [Platform] in Palo Alto, California. This role focuses on designing and building infrastructure that supports various research and product workflows. Responsibilities include developing tools for internal developers, ensuring robust and reproducible data management, and collaborating with research and product engineers. A strong software engineering background, proficiency in cloud environments and CI/CD systems, and excellent communication skills are essential. Join us in making AI development efficient and reliable.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering.
• Proficiency with cloud environments (AWS, GCP), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD systems.
• Experience building and maintaining developer tools, automation frameworks, or internal platforms.
• Familiarity with data pipelines, job scheduling, or ML experimentation workflows.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of improving developer velocity or system reliability.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with both research and product engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure supporting research and product environments.
• Develop and manage internal developer tools, automation systems, and shared libraries.
• Build reliable systems for data management, model experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
• Define and evolve build, test, and release workflows, ensuring seamless integration from prototype to production.
• Implement and monitor observability and performance metrics across services and pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with research and product teams to optimize workflows.
• Contribute to infrastructure strategy and architecture.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

DevOps engineering

Cloud environments (AWS, GCP)

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD systems

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

NeoCognition Inc. is looking for a Member of Technical Staff [Platform] in Palo Alto, California. This role focuses on designing and building infrastructure that supports various research and product workflows. Responsibilities include developing tools for internal developers, ensuring robust and reproducible data management, and collaborating with research and product engineers. A strong software engineering background, proficiency in cloud environments and CI/CD systems, and excellent communication skills are essential. Join us in making AI development efficient and reliable.