Tech Lead Manager, GPU Cluster Infrastructure

Foundations is FAR.AI 's infrastructure and engineering team. Our remit is broad: we run the compute platform, build the tools and frameworks researchers work in, automate research workflows, and help teams scale experiments well past what they'd manage alone. Our job is to accelerate the research. We do so by working directly with researchers through embedded engagements and day-to-day consulting, and building systems that can scale with the organization as it grows.

Foundations is growing quickly, and our infrastructure portfolio is growing fastest. We run FAR.AI 's research on a mix of bare-metal and managed Kubernetes GPU clusters from multiple providers. We rent the hardware and operate the platform ourselves. The fleet has grown from dozens to hundreds of GPUs this year and it's continuing to grow quickly: we're adding providers, taking on users beyond our own researchers, and moving experiments onto frontier open-weight models. A large amount of research is now being done by AI agents working directly on the cluster, which is driving updates to our platform infrastructure and security.

Running it well now takes dedicated specialists, so we're standing up an infrastructure sub-team that owns the cluster fleet: adding capacity, designing and managing the networking and storage under it, infrastructure as code, and the security posture, plus some of the platform layer above it. It works directly with research teams as their needs change.

You'd be the infrastructure sub-team's lead and one of its engineers, with at least half your time on technical work. You'd own the platform's technical direction and roadmap, deciding what we build and how we run it in collaboration with the research teams and the rest of Foundations, and you'd hire and grow the team.

In frontier AI research, working out the infrastructure is often part of the science. You'd work directly with researchers and other engineers to keep our large-scale experiments performant and fault-tolerant.

We're also hiring a Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure for this team. If you want the hands-on work without the management responsibilities, take a look there instead.

Set the platform's technical direction and own its roadmap. You decide which systems we run, how we schedule and store across providers, and what we measure, from utilization and queue wait to failure rates.

Stay in the work. You own architecture and the scheduling and storage design, and you debug the failures that cross layers, such as node health, GPU and fabric faults, and multi-node job hangs.

Hire and grow a small team of senior engineers. You set priorities and ownership, scope projects, and give regular feedback and coaching.

Set security direction for a shared cluster where AI agents run experiments, covering identity and access, workload isolation, and sandboxing.

Decide how we operate, from the on-call rotation and incident response to postmortems, fault tolerance, and observability, and take part in it alongside the team.

Be the escalation point for research teams and for providers, and turn recurring problems into platform fixes.

If based in the USA or Singapore, you will be an employee of FAR.AI (501(c)(3) research non-profit / non-profit CLG). Outside the USA or Singapore, you will be employed via an EOR organisation on behalf of FAR.AI or as a contractor.

Location: Both remote and in-person (Berkeley, CA or Singapore) are possible. We sponsor visas for in-person employees, and can hire remotely in most countries. For this role we prefer candidates whose working hours overlap with Berkeley.

Hours: Full-time (40 hours/week).

On-call: We don't run a formal on-call rotation yet. The team is spread across time zones and covers incidents during working hours. As the experiments we run get larger we expect to introduce one, and this role would take part in it.

Application process: A one hour programming assessment, a short screening call, a one hour code review interview, a 90 minute systems design and incident response interview, a one hour management and leadership interview, and a paid work trial lasting up to 1 week. If you are not available for a work trial we may be able to find alternative ways of testing your fit.

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact us at talent@far.ai . Otherwise, if you don't have questions, the best way to ensure a proper review of your skills and qualifications is by applying directly via the application form. Please don't email us to share your resume (it won't have any impact on our decision). Thank you!