Flexcompute

Flexcompute

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Watertown, Massachusetts, United States · Mid

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PythonBackend DevelopmentAWSDockerTerraformCI/CDLinux

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About the role

  • Flexcompute is a cutting-edge technology startup that specializes in ultra-fast simulation technology.
  • Our products are utilized by companies in designing and optimizing technology products, with applications ranging from designing airplanes and cars to wind turbines and quantum computing chips.
  • Our customer base includes both household names and startups in emerging industries.

Responsibilities

  • We are hiring a Software Engineer for the Tidy3D infrastructure team to own that platform.
  • You will build new capability, keep the existing system healthy, and run the release and deployment process.
  • Design and build backend services for the Tidy3D platform.
  • Develop and operate the control plane:
  • Build scheduling and resource management for simulation jobs across heterogeneous GPU capacity.
  • Manage packaging and release to PyPI, and keep client and backend versions compatible across a long tail of installed versions.
  • Own the release pipeline end to end:
  • Instrument the platform and own its monitoring and alerting.
  • Manage cloud cost and capacity as usage grows.
  • 2+ years building and operating production cloud services.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider such as AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

  • GPU or HPC workloads, cluster schedulers such as Slurm, Ray, or Kueue, or high-throughput batch compute.
  • Designing, packaging, and distributing a developer-facing Python library or SDK.
  • On-premises, self-hosted, or air-gapped software deployment, and the enterprise requirements that come with it: SSO, network isolation, security review.
  • A background in physics, engineering, or scientific computing, or prior work on technical software for technical users.
  • Open source contributions to infrastructure or scientific computing projects.
  • 401(k) Contribution.
  • Friendly, thoughtful, and intelligent coworkers.

Benefits

  • Backed by top VC firms, we are poised to disrupt the billion-dollar engineering simulation industry with our fast-growing trajectory.

Company info

  • Our company was founded by world-renowned leaders in simulation technology from Stanford University and MIT.
  • Help with the deployment of our products to customers.

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