Member of Technical Staff – Infrastructure Engineer

General Intuition & Medal • New York City, NY

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About The Position

General Intuition is seeking a generalist infrastructure engineer to own end-to-end infrastructure supporting both its action-policy and world-model research and the Medal consumer platform. The role centers on cloud architecture and fleet operations, petabyte-scale object storage for gameplay video, data pipelines, and CI/CD. The engineer will make architectural decisions ahead of growth, anticipate how systems will perform at 10 times the data, traffic, or team size, and work across infrastructure and application code as needed.

The hire will build General Intuition’s infrastructure function in New York by setting technical direction, hiring and developing the team, and defining how systems are designed, reviewed, deployed, and operated, while remaining hands-on. The role works directly with research and product engineering across General Intuition and Medal and serves as a system-design resource for those teams.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of hands-on experience with planet-scale distributed systems, such as search infrastructure, large-scale storage or query systems, or time-series systems.
• Strong fundamentals in storage, query engines, consistency, and production operations of distributed systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience running cloud and storage systems in production.
• Experience owning Terraform, IAM, and Kubernetes on a major cloud; the company uses GCP and CoreWeave.
• Experience with object storage at a scale where storage placement, tiering, and egress costs were part of the candidate’s responsibilities.
• A track record of building infrastructure from scratch, ideally as a founder or one of the first infrastructure engineers.
• Experience leading infrastructure while remaining hands-on, setting technical direction, raising engineering standards, and writing code.
• Ability to work across the stack, from low-level infrastructure through application code, without requiring a handoff to build supported systems.
• High agency and sound judgment in ambiguous situations, including shifting priorities between a research lab and a live consumer product.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with video or media at petabyte scale, or practical gaming experience and familiarity with gaming data.
• Depth in ML tooling such as PyTorch or JAX, world models, data platforms or orchestration such as Dagster, GPU training clusters, or systems programming in Rust or C++.
• Serious open-source contributions.
• Experience operating infrastructure that serves research workloads and consumer-facing production traffic simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end infrastructure supporting research workloads and the Medal consumer platform.
• Design and operate cloud architecture and infrastructure fleets, with cloud and storage as central areas of ownership.
• Own object storage for petabytes of gameplay video, including decisions about placement, tiering, and egress costs.
• Build and maintain data pipelines and CI/CD systems.
• Make infrastructure architecture decisions in anticipation of growth and plan for systems to handle substantially more data, traffic, and team size.
• Build the infrastructure function in New York, set technical direction, hire and grow the team, and define system design, review, deployment, and operations practices.
• Remain hands-on in implementation, including writing application code when needed.
• Work directly with research and product engineering across General Intuition and Medal and advise on system design.

What This Job Offers

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