Unconventionalinc

Unconventionalinc

Member of Technical Staff - Development Experience

Palo Alto, CA or Greater Seattle Area · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 hours ago
PythonBashDatabricksVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsAI OrchestrationResearch

About the role

  • As a Member of Technical Staff, Development Experience, you are the operational backbone of Unconventional AI's "extreme co-design" workflow.
  • Unlike a traditional platform engineering role, your internal customers are a wildly multi-disciplinary mix of AI researchers, integrated-circuit experts, and silicon engineers building the future of physics-based compute.
  • You will own the standardized development environments, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code that allow this diverse team to rapidly iterate on complex simulations, ML training, and hardware verification without friction.

Responsibilities

  • Extreme Co-Design Environments: Build, standardize, and maintain development and research environments tailored for a highly diverse team spanning software, physics, and silicon engineering.
  • Core DevEx & Platform Support: Own CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and observability across our engineering stack.
  • Data Fundamentals: Solid understanding of database architectures and storage solutions to support stateful applications.

Requirements

  • Programming & Scripting: Strong programming proficiency in Python, coupled with advanced shell scripting (Bash, etc.) for robust automation.
  • Infrastructure & Orchestration: Deep expertise in Linux/Unix environments.
  • Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes (K8s).
  • DevOps & Cloud: Proven track record of designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and deploying to major cloud environments (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Agentic Workflow: Experience with or strong interest in "agentic code development" (e.g., utilizing AI coding assistants, automating engineering workflows with AI).
  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or Developer Experience (DevEx).
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python, coupled with advanced shell scripting (Bash, etc.) for robust automation.
  • Deep expertise in Linux/Unix environments.
  • Experience with or strong interest in "agentic code development" (e.g., utilizing AI coding assistants, automating engineering workflows with AI).

Nice to have

  • Vector Storage: Hands-on experience with Vector Databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus) for semantic search and context retrieval.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with IaC tools, particularly Terraform.
  • Observability: Deep background in setting up observability and monitoring stacks (e.g., Databricks, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
  • The Mission: Redefine computing for the next 50 years by solving the fundamental energy limitation of AI at a global scale.
  • The Impact: Shape the company's future as a foundational team member.
  • The Challenge: Dive into deeply complex, intellectually stimulating, and unsolved problems at the cutting edge of multiple, converging fields-you will be defining the future of AI compute.

Skills

  • Proven track record of designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and deploying to major cloud environments (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Why Join Us?

Compensation

  • The Perks: A comprehensive package including competitive salary, significant equity, best-in-class health benefits, 401k matching, truly unlimited PTO, and complimentary meals when working from our Palo Alto office.

Benefits

  • A comprehensive package including competitive salary, significant equity, best-in-class health benefits, 401k matching, truly unlimited PTO, and complimentary meals when working from our Palo Alto office.
  • Education: BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Since 2022, AI has entered the mainstream, reshaping entire industries from education and software development to fundamental consumer behaviors.
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