Platform Engineer AI Compute

Location: Onsite in San Diego or San Mateo, California, United States

Salary: USD 167,600–251,500 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular full-time employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, autonomous aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Build and maintain software and configuration for running GPU workloads on Kubernetes.
• Design quotas, scheduling priorities, permissions, and isolation for predictable multi-team compute sharing.
• Automate deployment and upgrades of GPU services, including Run:ai, using infrastructure as code, Terraform, and Helm.
• Investigate and resolve scheduling, configuration, storage, networking, and workload performance problems.
• Build diagnostics connecting queue times, GPU utilization, memory requirements, and training throughput to developer experience.
• Benchmark workloads, recommend GPU capacity and hardware, and deliver repeatable installations across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.

Requirements

• Experience building and supporting production Kubernetes platforms, including GPU or distributed computing workloads.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Experience automating infrastructure deployment, configuration, and upgrades.
• Practical Linux, networking, and storage troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with shared resource scheduling, access controls, or workload isolation.
• Ability to work directly with machine-learning engineers, understand their workloads, and turn recurring problems into maintained platform capabilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Run:ai or comparable GPU scheduling and resource-management systems.
• Familiarity with distributed training and tools such as Ray or PyTorch.
• Experience delivering on-premises or air-gapped platforms, or contributing to open-source infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on the AI Factory reference architecture used by internal engineering teams and delivered to customers.
• Focus on the intersection of AI, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and defense.
• Regular full-time employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer; accommodations are available for disabilities or special needs.