Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure & Reliability

Relativity Space; City of Long Beach (NY); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve our agentic infrastructure stack, including SybilClaw, yapCAD, Mechatron, Multigraph, local LLM inference, and supporting services. You will deploy production-grade systems, improve reliability, and collaborate across teams to scale the stack for internal and customer use.

You’ll work with forward-deployed engineers, learn the stack, package components for deployment, and contribute to or maintain open-source software while

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating complex software and compute infrastructure, with hands-on work across hardware, operating systems, networking, and automation.
• Experience deploying an agentic harness such as OpenClaw, Hermes, SybilClaw, or a comparable system in a real work environment.
• Strong Linux and macOS systems experience, including debugging services, processes, storage, permissions, and networking.
• Experience operating physical infrastructure, VMs, or containers in production.
• Strong networking fundamentals including routing, VLANs, DNS, and firewalls.
• Ability to build software, scripts, CLIs, and integrations when existing tools aren’t sufficient.
• Meaningful experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software.
• Strong judgment around reliability, security, performance, and simplicity.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of our agentic infrastructure: agents, sessions, model routing, context pipelines, inter-agent communication, and supporting services
• Build and maintain infrastructure where good off-the-shelf solutions don’t yet exist
• Deploy and operate local LLM inference across Mac Studio and GPU hardware
• Manage Linux/macOS systems, Proxmox VMs and containers, storage, backups, and recovery
• Maintain multi-site networking including L3 routing, VLANs, DNS, firewalls, and connectivity
• Build CLIs, dashboards, automation, and internal tools that make engineers faster
• Improve observability, debugging, and automated failure recovery
• Contribute upstream to open-source projects we rely on
• Help design practical security around local compute, data handling, and access controls
• Package and deploy portions of the stack into internal and customer environments
• Work directly with engineers to understand what they need and turn recurring problems into better infrastructure

Skills

Linux

macOS

Networking

VMs & Containers

Automation

Open-source

Security

Scripting

Tools

Proxmox

Ollama

MLX

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Job description

Relativity Space is seeking an experienced engineer to own and evolve our agentic infrastructure stack, including SybilClaw, yapCAD, Mechatron, Multigraph, local LLM inference, and supporting services. You will deploy production-grade systems, improve reliability, and collaborate across teams to scale the stack for internal and customer use.

You’ll work with forward-deployed engineers, learn the stack, package components for deployment, and contribute to or maintain open-source software while