Senior Engineering Manager (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States; expected to work from the Seattle offices

Base salary: $146,880–$220,320 per year, plus bonus plans and a long-term incentive plan.

Company

hirify.global is a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute focused on open-source AI development, foundational research, large-scale models, data, robotics, and conservation.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day operations, availability, performance, and health of dense on-premise NVIDIA GPU clusters.
• Operate and improve Beaker orchestration across on-premise infrastructure and AWS/GCP cloud resources.
• Manage distributed storage for high-throughput model training and durable petascale research data.
• Allocate GPU resources against budget, track utilization, and recommend cloud bursting or on-premise capacity investments.
• Partner with research teams to keep infrastructure reliable and responsive to their objectives.
• Manage and grow a team of systems engineers, SREs, and software developers.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or HPC, or an advanced degree with 8+ years of technical experience.
• At least 2 years supervising a team of 5 or more engineers.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, with a relevant advanced degree accepted as a substitute for equivalent technical experience.
• Direct experience operating large-scale NVIDIA GPU clusters and InfiniBand or RoCE networks.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Slurm, or similar orchestration frameworks in hybrid-cloud environments.
• Hands-on distributed filesystem and cloud storage experience, plus proficiency in Go or Python and SDLC processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Open-science environment focused on releasing research, data, code, and models to the scientific community.
• Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, HSA, HRA, and flexible spending account plans.
• 401(k) plan, annual bonuses, and long-term incentive plan.
• Paid vacation, sick leave, personal days, holidays, and family leave.
• Monthly commuting or internet and fitness and wellbeing allowances.
• Learning opportunities through Ai2 Academy lectures, guest experts, and continuing education support.