Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. They are looking for a Staff Engineer to act as a technical leader within their Platform & Infrastructure organization, focusing on evolving architectural strategy and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead Architectural Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision for our infrastructure, designing resilient, distributed systems that support our rapidly growing AI workloads
• Mentor and Develop Talent: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and continuous learning
• Systemic Problem Solving: Partner with engineering leads to diagnose complex technical bottlenecks and break down multifaceted infrastructure challenges using first principles into scalable, manageable technical requirements
• Drive Platform Excellence: Design and implement foundational platform services that improve developer experience and reduce operational overhead across the engineering organization
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product, research, and security teams to ensure our infrastructure is secure, performant, and aligned with the company’s broader mission

Skills

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems
• Demonstrated experience leading high-impact engineering teams, including mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical strategy at a staff level
• Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred) Kubernetes at scale
• Expertise in GPU/ML infrastructure for large training, data-generation, and inference workloads, including GPU scheduling, optimization and high-performance networking
• Strong ability to decompose complex technical problems into simplified, incremental, and actionable architectural designs
• Deep proficiency in architectural patterns for high-throughput, low-latency services
• Experience operating in high-growth environments where infrastructure requirements pivot rapidly due to new scientific or product discoveries
• Experience with multi-tenant, data governance, data registries, lineage, and federated access for model tuning with high IP sensitive environments
• Worked in regulated / compliance-bound environments that have data residency, export controls, SOC2, and strict isolation requirements

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
• Retirement savings with company matching
• Paid parental leave
• Inclusive family-building benefits
• Fully remote
• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide seasonal breaks
• Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance
• Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs
• Career Defining Work
• Performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable)
• Equity participation

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