Platform Infrastructure Engineer, Security-Leaning

Pronoia•Torrance, CA

45d•Onsite

About The Position

Pronoia Energy is seeking a Platform and Infrastructure Engineer to build the foundational AI system that accelerates their research in quantum energy storage. This role involves turning owned on-premises hardware into a reliable and secure platform for local model serving, a robust on-prem database for search indexing and provenance, and a sandboxed execution environment for AI-generated code. A key focus is embedding trust-boundary discipline from the outset to ensure future security hardening is a migration, not a rewrite. This is a foundational, high-reward role for an individual who can ensure both system reliability and security.

Requirements

Deep backend and systems engineering with genuine bare-metal or on-premises experience, not cloud-only.
Real sandboxing and untrusted-code-isolation depth, for example network namespaces, seccomp, or egress filtering.
A security instinct that shows up as default-deny defaults and auditable, versioned infrastructure.
Comfort being a founding generalist who later hands specialties to dedicated hires.
A self-starter who thrives amid ambiguity and rapid iteration.

Nice To Haves

A defense, aerospace, or regulated-data background that makes the enclave mindset second nature.
Experience running your own GPU fleet rather than renting cloud compute.
Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and GPU-serving infrastructure.
Prior work in deep tech R&D alongside interdisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

Build reliable local model serving and data infrastructure on owned, on-premises hardware.
Stand up a sandboxed code-execution environment with default-deny networking.
Implement the provenance and audit store that records where every fact came from.
Design the early system already shaped like the secure end-state, with data-classification and boundary discipline built in.
Wear several hats as a founding generalist and later hand specialties to dedicated hires.