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Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Platform

San Francisco, USAOn-sitePosted 1 week ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Level
Not listed
Department
Engineering
Experience
5+ years experience
Posted
Sep 23, 2026

About the role

Core Technical Responsibilities

You'll build the distributed control plane and node-level runtime behind our sandbox platform: placing workloads across bare-metal workers, launching secure microVMs, and making the entire lifecycle fast, efficient, and resilient to failure.

  • Build the control plane that places sandbox workloads efficiently across bare-metal CPU and GPU workers.
  • Build node-level execution systems that launch and supervise secure microVMs, coordinate storage and networking, and take sandboxes from assignment to ready execution.
  • Own the sandbox product surface, including its APIs, SDK, and CLI, and evolve it to support reinforcement learning and agentic workflows at scale.
  • Work closely with research, applied research, customers, and the broader engineering team to take problems from discovery through design, implementation, and production adoption.

Technical Requirements

  • You have 5+ years of experience building production distributed systems from the ground up.
  • You have strong systems programming experience. Production Go is a major advantage; Rust, C++, or comparable systems-language experience is also valued.
  • You are a high-agency engineer who can lead the design and implementation of high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.
  • You have strong Linux systems fundamentals and depth in at least one of virtualization, networking, storage, or workload isolation.
  • You enjoy going deep on systems performance, whether the bottleneck is memory behavior, concurrency, networking, or resource utilization.
  • You have built, deployed, and operated production systems at scale.

What We Offer

  • Cash compensation of $150-300k with significant equity incentives
  • Flexible work arrangements, with our San Francisco office preferred and remote work possible for exceptional candidates
  • Full visa sponsorship and relocation support
  • A professional development budget for courses and conferences
  • Regular team off-sites and conference attendance
  • The opportunity to shape core infrastructure for frontier AI research

Growth Opportunity

You'll work alongside experienced engineers and researchers building core infrastructure for frontier AI research. You'll shape the sandbox platform that powers demanding reinforcement learning, evaluation, and agentic workloads, with opportunities to contribute to open-source infrastructure.

On a small, high-ownership team, you'll help set technical direction and engineering practices while moving quickly from decisions to shipped systems.

We value deep systems expertise and customer obsession. If you want to build foundational infrastructure from the control plane down to the node runtime, we want to talk to you.

Apply now and help build the systems behind the next generation of AI research.