Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Platform to build and own the infrastructure behind an early-stage AI startup redefining how materials are discovered and developed.

The company is ~50 engineers, recently raised ~$55M, and is partnering with the U.S. Department of Energy (Genesis Mission) alongside Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, AWS, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

You’ll work on production systems that power a closed-loop platform combining generative models, atomistic simulations, and automated labs.

This is a hands-on IC role with broad ownership and real-world scientific impact.

What You’ll Do:

• Build core platform services and workflow primitives
• Own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and release automation
• Design and operate hybrid cloud infrastructure (cloud + on-prem)
• Build and run Kubernetes-based platform services
• Implement monitoring, logging, and reliability primitives
• Enable ML, science, and backend teams to ship safely and faster

We are looking for candidates who has:

• Built and owned CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform / CloudFormation)
• Hands-on AWS experience (EKS, EC2, S3, VPC)
• Production Kubernetes experience (platform or PaaS-style)
• Experience with observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Loki)
• Strong automation skills (Python, Bash)
• Solid security mindset (IAM, secrets management, CI/CD security)

Nice to Have:

• GitOps with ArgoCD
• GPU-backed cloud infrastructure (platform-level)
• Internal developer tooling or PaaS experience

Location: NY (Brooklyn) Hybrid set up

Competitive salary + Equity + Benefits; base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.