Staff AI Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Redwood City, California, United States; hybrid

Base salary: $235,000–$353,000 annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds unified general intelligence that can generate, understand, and operate in the physical world, with a focus on multimodal intelligence and vision.

What you will do

• Architect and operate a heterogeneous fleet of more than 10,000 GPUs under extreme demand.
• Improve infrastructure utilization, performance, scheduling, placement, and resource management as cluster size and concurrency grow.
• Debug failures across hardware, operating systems, kernels, runtimes, containers, networking, storage, and orchestration.
• Partner with research and product teams to build infrastructure for new model capabilities and scale inference while maintaining reliability and latency.
• Set company-wide reliability standards, shape research and product architecture, and eliminate recurring classes of instability.
• Hire, develop, and mentor systems and reliability engineers.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Linux and distributed systems.
• Production experience operating GPU or accelerator clusters.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes and modern open-source infrastructure.
• Ability to debug across hardware, kernels, runtimes, and orchestration, including behavior under contention and at scale.
• Ability to write code, build automation, and reason about bottlenecks, failure modes, and trade-offs.
• Strong technical judgment and production ownership in high-severity failure situations.

Nice to have

• Experience raising reliability standards across a company and influencing product and research architecture early.
• Ability to build strong engineering partnerships and attract and develop experienced engineers.
• Curiosity about how models use infrastructure and how systems improvements expand model capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Redwood City, California.
• Equity offered in addition to base salary.
• Equal opportunity employment.