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ML Infrastructure Engineer

  • Palo Alto

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Experience
2+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
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What you'll do

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ML INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

As an ML Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and optimizing the reliable, high-performance ML platform that powers recommendations on X. We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to make a meaningful impact.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Designing, building, and scaling GPU compute infrastructure, training frameworks, and experimentation tools to enable rapid iteration on ML hypotheses
  • Developing data pipelines and integrating large-scale data, training, and inference systems
  • Collaborating with ML teams to productionize models and ensure seamless integration across the stack
  • Ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency of large-scale machine learning systems
  • Working across the full stack to solve complex problems independently
  • Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the growth of the team

Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's, master's, post-graduate, or Ph.D. degree in computer science, machine learning, or other quantitative discipline
  • 2+ years of industry experience working with high traffic or large-scale production environments, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and/or deep learning applications
  • 2+ years experience with ML platforms, training infrastructure, or close collaboration with modeling engineers and data scientists
  • Experience with Python and compiled languages such as C++ or Rust

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Deep familiarity with modern ML frameworks such as JAX or PyTorch
  • Low-level understanding of compute systems, including distributed storage, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA toolkits, and networking
  • Comfortable with Linux systems and orchestration tools
  • Experience with job schedulers (e.g., Slurm), configuration management (Puppet/Ansible), or related infrastructure tooling

Skills

Stack

  • Python
  • C++
  • Rust
  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • CUDA

Working languages

English

Salary & benefits

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

$180,000 - $440,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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