Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud Infrastructure
Company: Together AI
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
About the Role Together AI is building the AI Acceleration
Cloud, an end-to-end platform for the full generative AI lifecycle,
combining the fastest LLM inference engine with state-of-the-art AI
cloud infrastructure. As a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, you
will play a key role in building the next generation AI cloud
platform – a highly available, global, blazing-fast cloud
infrastructure that virtualizes cutting-edge ML hardware
(GB200s/GB300s, BlueField DPUs) and enables state-of-the-art ML
practitioners with self-serve AI cloud services, such as on-demand
managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters. This platform serves both
our internal SaaS products (inference, fine-tuning) and our
external cloud customers, spanning dozens of data centers across
the world. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain performant,
secure, and highly-available backend services/operators that run in
our data centers and automate hardware management, such as
Infiniband partitioning, in-DC parallel storage provisioning, and
VM provisioning. Design and build out the IaaS software layer for a
new GB200 data center with thousands of GPUs. Work on a global
multi-exabyte high-performance object store, serving massive
datasets for pretraining. Build advanced observability stacks for
our customers with automated node lifecycle management for
fault-tolerant distributed pretraining. Perform architecture and
research work for decentralized AI workloads Work on the core,
open-source Together AI platform Create services, tools, and
developer documentation Create testing frameworks for robustness
and fault-tolerance To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply
technical and possess excellent communication, collaboration, and
diplomacy skills. You have strong fundamental software development
skills. In addition, you have strong systems knowledge and
troubleshooting abilities. Requirements 5 years of professional
software development experience and proficiency in at least one
backend programming language (Golang desired) 5 years experience
writing high-performance, well-tested, production quality code
Demonstrated experience with building and operating
high-performance and/or globally distributed micro-service
architectures across one or more cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Excellent communication skills – able to write clear design docs
and work effectively with both technical and non-technical team
members Deep experience with Kubernetes internals a big plus, such
as implementing non-trivial Kubernetes operators,
device/storage/network plugins, custom schedulers, or patches
thereon or Kubernetes itself Deep experience with VMs/hypervisors a
big plus, such as QEMU/KVM, cloud-hypervisor, VFIO, virtio, PCIE
passthrough, Kubevirt, SR-IOV Deep experience with DC networking
tech solutions a big plus, such as VLAN, VXLAN, VPN, VPC, OVS/OVN
Experience with Cluster API or similar a big plus Experience
working on high-performance compute, networking, and/or storage a
big plus Experience virtualizing GPUs and/or Infiniband a big plus
Strong systems knowledge across compute, networking, and storage,
including concurrency, memory management, performant I/O, and scale
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform,
Ansible), monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana),
and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) Experience building
IaaS or PaaS systems at scale a plus Experience with DPUs/SmartNICs
a plus GPU programming, NCCL, CUDA knowledge a plus About Together
AI Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence
company. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive
innovation and create the best outcomes for society, and together
we are on a mission to significantly lower the cost of modern AI
systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models.
We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and
datasets to advance the frontier of AI, and our team has been
behind technological advancement such as FlashAttention, Hyena,
FlexGen, and RedPajama. We invite you to join a passionate group of
researchers in our journey in building the next generation AI
infrastructure. Compensation We offer competitive compensation,
startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as
flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for
this full-time position is: $160,000 - $230,000 equity benefits.
Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role.
Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills,
and job-related knowledge. Equal Opportunity Together AI is an
Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment
opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry,
religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age,
citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran
status, and more. Please see our privacy policy at
https://www.together.ai/privacy
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