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North America

  • Build and deploy production code to support customer AI inference workloads on Tenstorrent's hardware and software stack.
  • Debug and optimize across the full inference stack, from serving layer to kernel dispatch, and translate customer issues into actionable requirements.
  • Operate Kubernetes and observability tools to manage multi-node AI clusters and ensure reliability.

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Resolve complex escalations as the final authority, using code-level debugging and architectural investigation.
  • Partner with customer technical leads to diagnose production issues, ensuring transparency and rapid resolution.
  • Own end-to-end P1 resolution and deliver clear, actionable post-incident analysis.

TensorWave delivers a versatile cloud platform for AI compute at scale, eliminating infrastructure barriers. The company fosters a culture of innovation and reliability, empowering builders to focus on breakthrough AI.

US

  • Engage directly with customers to resolve complex technical challenges involving Kubernetes GPU clusters.
  • Act as a customer-facing SRE to ensure Kubernetes clusters remain healthy and stable.
  • Become a product expert in GPU Cluster service, serving as the last line of technical defense before escalation.

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company focused on open and transparent AI systems. The team has contributed to leading open-source research and aims to build the next generation AI infrastructure.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for teams running large-scale training and inference workloads, owning onboarding end to end.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex failures in customer environments, from network fabric to ML frameworks, and build automation to prevent recurrence.
  • Profile and improve distributed training performance, lead incident response, and turn field insights into product improvements.

Andromeda Cluster provides scaled AI infrastructure to early-stage startups, founded by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. They work with leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers to deliver compute globally, building the liquidity layer for AI compute.

Canada

  • Lead the design and operation of GPU infrastructure for AI workloads.
  • Manage Kubernetes-based environments and optimize for AI training and inference.
  • Define operational standards, implement monitoring, and collaborate with AI engineering teams.

ELEKS is a software engineering company that partners with enterprises to accelerate digital transformation. They have a global team of over 2,000 professionals and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration.

$125,000–$250,000/yr
Global

  • Design, operate, and improve reliable infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident-response practices for easier operations.
  • Partner with ML, research, and platform teams to translate workload needs into infrastructure improvements.

Boson AI builds production-grade AI systems that make communication with AI more natural, capable, and useful. The team is focused on infrastructure reliability, operating GPU clusters and networks for AI workloads.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Deploy and scale MCP-based AI agents on Kubernetes for enterprise customers across the US-East and EMEA regions.
  • Lead complex technical engagements, build reusable deployment patterns, and mentor engineers on the team.
  • Shape product roadmap by feeding back field insights from regulated industries and defining regional engagement standards.

Stacklok builds the control plane for enterprise AI agents, enabling organizations to run, govern, and secure them on Kubernetes and private cloud. Founded by two Kubernetes creators, the company is already adopted by leading tech and regulated industries, fostering a collaborative, AI-maximalist culture with deep open-source roots.

Global 6w PTO 26w maternity 26w paternity

  • Lead and mentor a team of engineers specializing in GPU infrastructure, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Define and execute the technical roadmap for GPU cluster deployment, optimization, and scaling.
  • Partner with AI researchers to understand emerging infrastructure needs and translate them into robust solutions.

Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds cutting-edge foundation models and end-to-end products for enterprises. It is a global technology company with a team of researchers, engineers, and designers passionate about their craft.

Europe

  • Lead technical operations for large-scale AI infrastructure environments powered by NVIDIA GPUs and Kubernetes.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for critical incidents and drive root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions.
  • Mentor team members and shape operational standards, automation, and reliability practices for next-generation platform services.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, DocuSign, Liberty Mutual, PayPal, Reliance Jio, Societe Generale, Splunk, and Volkswagen.

Europe

  • Monitor, operate, and support production AI infrastructure platforms including NVIDIA GPU environments.
  • Investigate and resolve infrastructure, networking, hardware, and platform-related incidents.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams, vendors, and datacenter personnel to improve operational processes.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI and data-intensive applications. Serving enterprises like Adobe and PayPal, the company combines open source innovation with deep Kubernetes expertise to deliver composable developer platforms across any environment.

US

  • Monitor, operate, and support production AI infrastructure platforms and resolve incidents.
  • Investigate performance, availability, and reliability issues across infrastructure and platform components.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams, hardware vendors, and data center personnel to resolve technical issues.

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. It is a Silicon Valley leader with passionate, talented colleagues, offering a competitive compensation package and strong benefits.

Global

  • Implement and optimize compute kernels for Attention, GEMM, MoE, and quantization on NVIDIA, AMD, or AWS Trainium using CUDA, Triton, ROCm/HIP, or Neuron SDK.
  • Profile and improve inference performance in vLLM, SGLang, and custom runtimes through kernel fusion, scheduling, and memory optimizations.
  • Ship code upstream to open-source AI infrastructure projects with tests and documentation, working on a well-scoped project from design to production.

Yotta Labs is building the next generation multi-silicon AI cloud and runtime platform to power the world’s most demanding AI workloads. They are a remote-first team with a focus on high-performance AI computing and offer a flexible, collaborative work environment.

United States

  • Lead engineering deployment, scaling, and operations of AI compute clusters with GPU fleets and bare metal environments.
  • Drive reliability, monitoring, automation, and incident response for AI infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with AI/ML, networking, and product teams to align infrastructure with business needs.

Our partner is a fast-growing cloud environment focused on building large-scale AI infrastructure. They seek a senior leader to manage engineering operations for advanced AI compute clusters.

Global

  • Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment, and infrastructure for model serving and inference.
  • Build telemetry, observability, and alerting to catch real problems and reduce noise.
  • Eliminate toil through thoughtful automation and improve developer and agent productivity.

Obvious is building an AI-native workspace that serves as an operating system for work, putting co-intelligence at the center. They are a small, talent-dense team with founders and leaders from top tech companies.

Global

  • Deploy Hermes Agent Enterprise across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid customer environments.
  • Integrate enterprise APIs, internal data sources, and authentication systems into agent workflows.
  • Partner with customers to scope requirements, implement solutions, and iterate based on feedback.

Nous Research is an AI research company that develops advanced AI agents for enterprise deployment. The team is entrepreneurial and focuses on solving complex technical challenges through customer collaboration.

Hungary

  • Design and run Kubernetes environments optimized for AI inference, retrieval, experimentation, and agent execution in secure or isolated settings.
  • Deploy and operate open-source or open-weight model stacks, model gateways, vector databases, and supporting platform components.
  • Build reproducible platform automation using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps approaches for stable, auditable delivery.

Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group, providing IT and telecommunications services. It has over 5300 employees and has been recognized as Hungary's most attractive employer and most ethical multinational company.

Switzerland

  • Design and build production-grade ML inference infrastructure using frameworks like vLLM and Triton.
  • Optimize GPU utilization, memory efficiency, and model artifact storage for cost-effective performance.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and AI teams to establish engineering best practices and scalable platform architecture.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies. It uses technology to review applications and share top candidate shortlists with employers, operating in a remote-first environment.

Global

  • Design and build backend services for AI-powered product features, including inference pipelines and orchestration layers around LLMs.
  • Develop high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems with monitoring, logging, and alerting across production services.
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and AI engineers to optimize performance, caching, batching, and streaming.

This team is building an AI-native productivity platform that replaces repetitive digital work with reliable AI workflows. They are a small, focused product team working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.

$165,000–$330,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Partner directly with customers to architect, build, and deploy high-scale production AI applications on Baseten's platform.
  • Own the journey from initial exploration to production deployment, translating ambiguous goals into reliable services.
  • Work across product, software development, performance engineering, and customer-facing implementations.

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for dynamic AI companies like Cursor and Notion. They are rapidly growing, recently raised a $1.5B Series F, and foster a collaborative, forward-thinking culture.

LATAM North America EMEA

  • Spend your first weeks in the operator's seat, learning the customer's job from the inside before writing any code.
  • Ship production GenAI/LLM systems that move business unit metrics, not just complete scope.
  • Work embedded in small, senior teams alongside Principal Architects, owning the outcome from start to finish.

Provectus is a Premier AWS partner and an Anthropic Strategic Partner at the forefront of applied AI, helping enterprises turn Claude, agentic systems, and their own data into measurable business outcomes. With offices in North America, LATAM, and EMEA, we partner with clients worldwide and our team holds 100+ AWS certifications and is Claude Code certified.

$190,000–$230,000/yr
US

  • Lead the design and development of our production inference platform, defining the technical roadmap for inference infrastructure, model serving, and runtime optimization.
  • Build and operate scalable, cost-effective systems for serving large language models in production, optimizing latency, throughput, GPU utilization, and memory efficiency.
  • Partner with ML engineers to productionize new models and inference techniques, establish benchmarking methodologies, and make key architectural decisions.

Syllo is on a mission to transform litigation with a unified platform that enables lawyers to safely harness AI. Since going to market, they have gained diverse enterprise customers including big law firms and corporations, and are quickly expanding.