Staff Platform Engineer - Remote AI Infra Leader

SandboxAQ; United States; Remote; USD 147,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

Equity participation

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Company-wide seasonal breaks

Job summary

SandboxAQ is seeking a senior Platform & Infrastructure leader to define and execute the long-term architectural vision for our scalable AI infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, drive platform excellence, and partner with product and security to maintain high availability and performance of LQMs.

You will lead efforts across compute, storage, networking, and cloud environments, ensuring reliable systems that accelerate developer velocity and support rapid growth in a remote-friendly setup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience designing and scaling distributed systems.
• Experience leading high-impact engineering teams and guiding technical strategy.
• Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP) and Kubernetes at scale.
• Experience with GPU/ML infrastructure for training, data generation, and inference workloads.
• Ability to decompose complex problems into incremental architectural designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural strategy for infrastructure to support growing AI workloads.
• Mentor and develop engineering talent and enforce code quality standards.
• Diagnose bottlenecks and translate complex infra challenges into scalable requirements.
• Design and implement foundational platform services to improve developer experience and reduce ops overhead.
• Collaborate with product, research, and security teams to ensure secure, performant infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Kubernetes

GPU/ML infra

GCP cloud

Architectural design

Tools

GPU scheduling

Cloud tooling

Job description

SandboxAQ is seeking a senior Platform & Infrastructure leader to define and execute the long-term architectural vision for our scalable AI infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, drive platform excellence, and partner with product and security to maintain high availability and performance of LQMs.

You will lead efforts across compute, storage, networking, and cloud environments, ensuring reliable systems that accelerate developer velocity and support rapid growth in a remote-friendly setup.