Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Platform
Prime Intellect2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build a distributed control plane that efficiently places sandbox workloads across bare-metal CPU and GPU workers.
- Develop node-level execution systems that launch and supervise secure microVMs and coordinate storage and networking.
- Own the sandbox APIs, SDK, and CLI and evolve them for reinforcement learning and agentic workflows at scale.
- Collaborate with research, applied research, customers, and engineering teams to take systems from discovery and design through production adoption.
- Help set technical direction and engineering practices while building high-performance, fault-tolerant infrastructure.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building production distributed systems from the ground up.
- Strong systems programming experience; production Go is a major advantage, with Rust, C++, or comparable systems-language experience also valued.
- Ability to lead the design and implementation of high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.
- Strong Linux systems fundamentals and depth in at least one of virtualization, networking, storage, or workload isolation.
- Experience investigating systems-performance bottlenecks involving memory behavior, concurrency, networking, or resource utilization.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale.
Benefits
- Cash compensation of $150-300k with significant equity incentives.
- Based in the San Francisco office.
- Full visa sponsorship and relocation support.
- Professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Regular team off-sites and conference attendance.
- Opportunity to shape core infrastructure for frontier AI research and contribute to open-source infrastructure.
About Prime Intellect
Prime Intellect builds a full-stack platform for training frontier AI models, giving enterprises access to distributed compute and agentic training infrastructure to develop their own systems. The company operates as a platform and open research lab, with customers leveraging its infrastructure rather than building it in-house. Headquartered in San Francisco and privately held, it has raised a Series A round backed by investors including Founders Fund and NVIDIA.