Principal Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, Dogpatch

Salary: $200,000–$350,000 annually plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds and deploys AI scientist agents to accelerate scientific research and the development of new medicines.

What you will do

• Architect, implement, and operate highly available Kubernetes clusters supporting thousands of concurrent, persistent agents, jobs, and services.
• Develop CRDs and Kubernetes operators for AI agent lifecycles, research pipelines, and long-running compute tasks.
• Define cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling, scheduling, placement, affinity, and resource quota strategies.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows for reproducible environment management.
• Own Kubernetes storage, networking, service mesh, ingress, security, observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Collaborate with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload requirements into reliable infrastructure patterns.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience with deep production Kubernetes expertise.
• Experience designing CRDs and Kubernetes operators using Kubebuilder, Operator SDK, or controller-runtime.
• Experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters with thousands of persistent or long-lived resources.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, IAM, RBAC, and secrets management.
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language and hands-on experience with Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar tools.
• Ability to work autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production.

Nice to have

• Experience with data-intensive platforms, scientific computing, or ML/AI infrastructure.
• Startup or small-team experience with significant architectural ownership and ambiguity.
• Experience scaling systems, teams, or platforms during rapid growth.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, fast-moving environment focused on accelerating science and medicine.
• Full healthcare coverage with premiums paid for employees and dependents.
• Paid parental leave, fertility coverage, new parent support, and mental health support.
• 401(k) matching, commuter benefits, and quarterly health and wellness support.
• Daily office lunch, late-work dinners, team off-sites, and company events.