AI Infrastructure Engineer [Tooling]

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Tessera LabsAI infrastructure
Remote in the U.S.Full-TimeMiddle
Salary$200K - $230K; $200K – $230K • Offers Equity
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering (7+ years for senior)
Required Skills
PythonKubernetesGoCI/CDTerraformMLOps

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering; senior-level candidates need 7+ years.
  • Demonstrate strong software engineering in Python or Go and experience shipping tools, CLIs, or services used by other engineers.
  • Have hands-on experience running production LLM workloads using vLLM or a comparable serving stack.
  • Have experience building infrastructure for AI agents or LLM applications, such as orchestration, tool calling, evaluation, or agent runtimes.
  • Have practical MLOps experience with model or prompt versioning, evaluation and release pipelines, and ML systems observability.
  • Have strong hands-on Kubernetes experience, including writing or extending operators or controllers.
  • Have strong hands-on Terraform experience and experience with at least one of Azure, Oracle Cloud, GCP, or AWS.
  • Have experience designing and owning CI/CD systems, GitOps-driven deployments, and release automation.
  • Have solid networking fundamentals.
  • Have experience deploying and operating production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain internal CLIs, SDKs, and services in Python or Go for provisioning, deploying, testing, and debugging AI agents.
  • Deploy, scale, and tune LLM inference using vLLM or similar serving stacks, including GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and batching.
  • Build infrastructure for multi-agent systems, including runtimes, tool and connector execution, sandboxing, and state management.
  • Own MLOps workflows for model and prompt versioning, evaluation, artifact registries, and release promotion.
  • Write Kubernetes operators and custom controllers for AI workload deployment and management.
  • Design, build, and operate AI agent infrastructure on Kubernetes and Terraform across cloud environments.
  • Improve observability for AI systems, including tracing, utilization, latency, errors, and cost.
  • Design and own CI/CD, GitOps, and release automation for infrastructure, services, and model or agent releases.
  • Build self-service tooling for environment provisioning, secret rotation, dependency updates, compliance checks, and release management.
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