Prior Labs

ML Engineer, Infrastructure

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Berlin, Germany or New York, NY, USAMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve multi-cluster GPU infrastructure, including architecture, scheduling, reliability, and cost optimization.
  • Improve GPU utilization and distributed-training throughput through profiling, memory optimization, and systems-level debugging.
  • Architect multi-cluster orchestration, provider diversification, hardware adoption, and compute capacity planning.
  • Build developer productivity tooling for CI pipelines, experiment tracking, model registries, data processing, and internal research workflows.
  • Manage compute costs and evaluate cost per FLOP across providers and hardware.
  • Collaborate directly with researchers and contribute to model training when appropriate.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building and operating production GPU infrastructure or distributed-training systems at scale.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Slurm and cluster management, including multi-tenant GPU workload scheduling and utilization optimization.
  • Expert systems knowledge covering memory bandwidth, GPU profiling, and hardware-level performance analysis.
  • Strong Python skills and genuine fluency with PyTorch internals.
  • A track record of improving training throughput or cost efficiency through infrastructure decisions.
  • Strong familiarity with AI productivity tooling such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
  • Preferred experience includes tens-of-millions-scale GPU spending, multi-cloud or hybrid HPC/cloud infrastructure, Triton, CUDA, custom kernels, multi-cluster orchestration, and experiment tracking, model registry, or ML pipeline tooling.

Benefits

  • Teams are based in Berlin, Freiburg, and New York, with exceptional remote arrangements generally involving frequent travel to an office.
  • The company brings everyone together regularly for offsites.
  • The company offers equal opportunities and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.
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