Platform Engineer
Zyphra · San Francisco
CHECKED 7H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build systems that keep infrastructure robust, observable, secure and scalable.
- Ensure reliability and reproducibility of ML workloads in production.
- Lead incident response and postmortems focused on learning and prevention.
What they offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- 401(k) plan
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded builder who loves making other teams faster and safer through invisible, reliable infrastructure. You thrive in high-performance environments and care deeply about reliability, learning from incidents, and long-term maintainability.
Requirements
- Experience in high-performance compute environments, such as ML clusters or GPU farms and hyperscaler clouds (AWS, GCP)
- Background in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Familiarity with containers (Docker, Apptainer) and schedulers (Kubernetes, Slurm)
- Experience managing run-books, DRP, change management, and fault tolerance
- Experience with deployment strategies at scale
- Experience designing reliable environments for experimental workloads and reproducible runs
- Knowledge of compliance and audit standards in deployment and system security
- Experience with load testing, fault injection, and chaos engineering
- Prior work supporting ML/AI infrastructure, including GPU management and workload optimization
- Exposure to backend development for ML model serving (vLLM, Ray, SGLang, Triton)
- remote policy
- In-person in San Francisco
- visa sponsorship
- Immigration support on a case-by-case basis
Lab profile
About Zyphra
San Francisco AI lab building open language and audio models and autonomous desktop agents.
What they build
- Desktop and browser-based autonomous agents
- Open language models
- Open-source audio models (ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech)
Known for
- Agentic systems and human-AI interaction
- Reinforcement learning, post-training and preference learning
- Large-scale language model pre-training
- Novel model architectures and training methods
Key facts
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California