Magic
Member of Technical Staff, Supercomputing Platform & Infrastructure
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$550kDetected 909 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformResearch
About the role
- This role can evolve into broader ownership of supercomputing platform architecture, shaping how Magic scales GPU clusters and infrastructure reliability as model workloads grow.
- Improve deployment reproducibility, environment consistency, and operational safety
- Automate fault detection and recovery across distributed clusters
Responsibilities
- As an engineer on the Supercomputing Platform & Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate the large-scale GPU infrastructure that powers Magic's model training and inference workloads.
- Long-running distributed jobs, high-throughput data movement, and strict availability requirements demand infrastructure that is automated, observable, and resilient by design.
- You will own the systems and IaC foundations that make this possible, including the Kubernetes (K8s) environments that coordinate workloads across our GPU infrastructure.
- Design and operate large-scale GPU clusters for training and inference
- Deploy, operate, and optimize K8s clusters used to schedule and manage AI workloads
- Develop modular, scalable IaC patterns for compute, networking, and storage provisioning
- Hands-on. At Magic, everyone is building
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on experience with Terraform, including module design, state management, environment isolation, and large-scale deployments
- Experience operating production GPU infrastructure or high-performance distributed systems
- Strong understanding of networking and storage systems
- Experience with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI, etc.)
- Track record of owning production-critical infrastructure end-to-end
Skills
- Debug complex cross-layer issues spanning hardware, drivers, networking, storage, OS, and cloud
Compensation
- Annual salary range between $200K - $550K depending on experience
- 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
Benefits
- Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
- Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
- We value quick learning and grit just as much as skill and experience.
Company info
- Magic's mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity's progress on the world's most important problems.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
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