Infrastructure Engineer

LatchBio • San Francisco, CA

1d • $180,000 - $250,000 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure layer of LatchBio, including container orchestration, distributed filesystems, cloud architecture, and database systems. While our team is operationally proficient, we lack the bandwidth to address exciting areas of improvement such as speeding up container starts, improving filesystem throughput, scaling up RL operations, and reducing costs. You will work with scientists and frontier models to build the infrastructure that powers our benchmarking pipeline, including data ingestion, eval design, grading systems, and infrastructure. This role involves working on products like an agent harness integrated with bio-first tooling, a distributed file-system with metadata on Postgres and blobs on S3, a cluster orchestrator, reactive Python-based notebooks, and a benchmarking harness with automated QC processes. Our mission is to accelerate biological science for the benefit of humanity.

Requirements

• Worked both on and with container orchestration systems such as K8s
• Deeply proficient at postgres
• Mastery of cloud primitives, especially AWS ones
• Exceptional modern Linux fundamentals like eBPF, cgroups2, etc

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure layer of LatchBio, including container orchestration, distributed filesystems, cloud architecture, and database systems.
• Address areas of improvement such as speeding up container starts, improving filesystem throughput, scaling up RL operations, and reducing costs.
• Build the infrastructure that powers our benchmarking pipeline, including data ingestion, eval design, grading systems, and infrastructure.
• Work with scientists and frontier models.
• Develop and maintain agent harness integrated with bio-first tooling.
• Manage a distributed file-system with metadata on Postgres and blobs on S3.
• Design and operate a cluster orchestrator capable of accepting compute nodes from anywhere on the internet.
• Develop reactive Python-based notebooks for data analysis and visualization.
• Implement a benchmarking harness with automated QC processes to validate and probe model failure cases.

Benefits

• $180k–$250k/yr
• Equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Waterfront office in China Basin, San Francisco
• Free lunch and dinner
• 100% premium covered on Blue Shield's platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible)
• 401(k) plan options
• Work visa sponsorship
• Company-sponsored professional development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed