Description
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
You are looking for a Platform Engineer to make the AI compute platform easier to use, more reliable, and more efficient. You will write software, improve how teams share GPUs, help developers troubleshoot workloads, and use performance data to guide capacity growth.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the software and configuration that let developers run GPU workloads on Kubernetes.
- Design quotas, scheduling priorities, permissions, and isolation so multiple teams can share compute predictably.
- Automate deployment and upgrades of GPU services, including Run:ai, with infrastructure as code and tools such as Terraform and Helm.
- Investigate why jobs wait, fail, or run slowly, and fix recurring scheduling, configuration, storage, and networking problems.
- Build diagnostics that connect queue times, GPU utilization, memory requirements, and training throughput to the developer’s experience.
- Benchmark representative workloads and recommend when to add GPU capacity, how much to add, and which hardware fits the workload.
- Deliver repeatable installations and upgrades across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.
Key Outcomes
- Developers can get the GPU resources they need through understandable access and resource policies.
- Teams can diagnose slow or blocked training jobs and distinguish capacity shortages from configuration problems.
- GPU expansion decisions reflect measured demand and workload performance.
- Platform changes improve reliability without disrupting existing training workflows.
Requirements
- Experience building and supporting production Kubernetes platforms, including GPU or distributed computing workloads.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
- Experience automating infrastructure deployment, configuration, and upgrades.
- Practical Linux, networking, and storage troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with shared resource scheduling, access controls, or workload isolation.
- Ability to work directly with machine-learning engineers, understand their workloads, and turn recurring problems into maintained platform capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Run:ai or comparable GPU scheduling and resource-management systems.
- Familiarity with distributed training and tools such as Ray or PyTorch.
- Experience delivering on-premises or air-gapped platforms, or contributing to open-source infrastructure.
Why Join Us
The AI Factory is the foundation for how Shield AI develops and deploys autonomy.
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will help build the reference architecture used internally by our engineering teams and delivered to customers building their own AI capabilities. Your work will directly impact how quickly researchers can iterate, how efficiently compute resources are utilized, and how AI systems move from experimentation to operational deployment.