PSI
Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems
Boston · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 70 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesDatadogTemporalAirflowCadenceResearch
About the role
- Our mission is to discover and commercialize transformative physics breakthroughs at scale with artificial superintelligence, safely, verifiably, and for broad public benefit.
- The last century's golden age of physics gave us transistors, lasers, and nuclear energy.
- We believe artificial superintelligence will unlock the next one.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new runtime primitives for our AI platform.
- Build and harden the multi-tenant durable workflow execution system that powers
- Treat our AI platform as a library product. Design the programmatic interfaces that researchers and engineers across PSI extend, with clear architectural layers and explicit API contracts so that scientific workflows compose cleanly.
- define and meet SLOs, build instrumentation and alerting, plan capacity, lead incident response.
- Operate the platform that runs every research workflow and customer-facing AI product at PSI: define and meet SLOs, build instrumentation and alerting, plan capacity, lead incident response.
Requirements
- A track record of designing and shipping a Python library or internal framework that other engineers extend, not just consume.
- Real experience implementing or substantially extending orchestration primitives, workflow engines, dataflow systems, or agent runtimes.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with a durable workflow system such as Temporal, Cadence, Step Functions, Argo Workflows, or Airflow at scale.
- Production observability built on OpenTelemetry or comparable tooling.
- Background in scientific computing, HPC environments, or research infrastructure.
- This role is based in Boston.
- We evaluate on technical breadth, systems thinking, scientific curiosity, and shipping velocity.
Compensation
- This role is based in Boston.
- We will consider remote candidates on a case-by-case basis.
- We offer competitive compensation including salary, benefits, and meaningful early-stage equity.
- We evaluate on technical breadth, systems thinking, scientific curiosity, and shipping velocity.
Company info
- We are seeking engineers to build platform infrastructure at the intersection of computational science, AI systems, and software engineering.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diverse perspectives in building platforms for AI-driven discovery.
This listing is sourced directly from PSI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.