Staff Platform Engineer, Robotics Dev Infra

Persona AI Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits (99% employer covered

Equity

Competitive PTO

Winter break

Job summary

Persona AI Inc. is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer for Developer Infrastructure in Houston, TX. You will own the build and CI/CD stack spanning a mixed C++/Python/Rust/CUDA monorepo and ARM64 cross‑compilation, ensuring reproducible builds and efficient PR feedback.

The role blends on‑prem and lab infrastructure with site networking, and requires deep Linux expertise, IaC work, and strong Python/Bash skills. On‑site work with robotics hardware and offline deployment is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years operating production infrastructure for a software engineering org, with direct ownership of CI/CD or developer platform work.
• Deep Linux systems fluency including networking, storage, systemd, kernel and driver debugging.
• Hands-on ownership of a major CI system and understanding of the build and cache layers underneath it.
• Real experience with a C/C++ build system at scale and cross-compilation.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize the build graph for a mixed C++/Python/Rust/CUDA monorepo across AMD64 and ARM64.
• Manage CI capacity with self-hosted runners, GPU/hardware runners, and fast PR feedback.
• Ensure reproducible builds that remain bit-identical over time.

Skills

CI/CD ownership

Linux systems

Cross-compilation

IaC (Ansible, Terraform)

GitOps

Python

Bash

Written communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Buildkite

Jenkins

Job description

Persona AI Inc. is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer for Developer Infrastructure in Houston, TX. You will own the build and CI/CD stack spanning a mixed C++/Python/Rust/CUDA monorepo and ARM64 cross‑compilation, ensuring reproducible builds and efficient PR feedback.

The role blends on‑prem and lab infrastructure with site networking, and requires deep Linux expertise, IaC work, and strong Python/Bash skills. On‑site work with robotics hardware and offline deployment is expected.