# AI Infra Engineer

**Company**: Perplexity
**Location**: San Francisco, Palo Alto
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220K – $405K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perplexity/598e1f7d-b802-4de2-99ac-90eb2bc33315
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_e8e799bf-c32

## Description

We are looking for an AI Infra engineer to join our growing team. We work with Kubernetes, Slurm, Python, C++, PyTorch, and primarily on AWS. As an AI Infrastructure Engineer, you will be partnering closely with our Inference and Research teams to build, deploy, and optimize our large-scale AI training and inference clusters

## What you'll do

- Design, deploy, and maintain scalable Kubernetes clusters for AI model inference and training workloads

- Manage and optimize Slurm-based HPC environments for distributed training of large language models

## What you need

- Strong expertise in Kubernetes administration, including custom resource definitions, operators, and cluster management

- Hands-on experience with Slurm workload management, including job scheduling, resource allocation, and cluster optimization

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes administration
- Slurm workload management

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes operators
- Slurm administration