Member of Technical Staff – Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
General Intuition is seeking a generalist infrastructure engineer to own infrastructure supporting both its action-policy and world-model research and the Medal gaming 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 need to evolve as data, traffic, or team size scales, and contribute application code when needed. The role will build the 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 engineer will work directly with research and product engineering teams across General Intuition and Medal and provide system-design expertise.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of hands-on exposure to planet-scale distributed systems, such as search infrastructure, large-scale storage or query systems, or time-series systems.
- Strong fundamentals in storage, query engines, and consistency, with experience running distributed systems in production.
- Deep, hands-on production experience with cloud and storage, including ownership of Terraform, IAM, and Kubernetes on a major cloud, and object storage at a scale involving placement, tiering, and egress-cost decisions.
- Track record of building infrastructure from scratch rather than only operating systems designed by others.
- Experience setting technical direction and raising the bar for infrastructure engineers, while remaining hands-on and writing code.
- Ability to work across the stack, from low-level infrastructure through application code, without needing a handoff to build the systems the infrastructure supports.
- High agency and sound judgment under ambiguity, including the ability to prioritize across research-lab and live consumer-product needs.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with video or media at petabyte scale, or practical games 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 work in Rust or C++.
- Serious open-source contributions.
- Experience operating infrastructure that simultaneously serves research workloads and consumer-facing production traffic.
- Experience as a founder or one of the first infrastructure engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end infrastructure for research workloads and the Medal consumer platform, including cloud architecture, fleet operations, object storage, data pipelines, and CI/CD.
- Make infrastructure architecture decisions and plan for growth in data, traffic, and team size.
- Build application code as needed to support infrastructure and the systems that depend on it.
- Build the infrastructure function in New York, set its technical direction, hire and grow the team, and define practices for system design, review, deployment, and operations.
- Work directly with research and product engineering teams across General Intuition and Medal, providing system-design guidance.
- Lead infrastructure while remaining hands-on and continuing to write code.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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