Platform Engineer, Model Shaping
Together AI· Research
San Francisco$200k - $290kfull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Platform Engineer in Model Shaping at Together AI focused on building and operating the backend services and underlying systems for model customization, evaluation, and scalable production workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and build Together’s systems and infrastructure for model customization, including user-facing features and internal improvements
- Contribute to reliability improvements for the platform, participating in an on-call rotation and improving processes for incident response
- Create and improve internal tooling for deployment, continuous integration, and observability
- Build a job orchestration platform spanning multiple datacenters, supporting a highly heterogeneous hardware landscape
- Partner with teams developing internal services, co-designing these services and incorporating them in systems built within Together
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in building infrastructure or backend components of production services
- Extensive experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Linux environments and Kubernetes-based platforms
- Strong software engineering background in Python or Go
- Experienced with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Cloud environment (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) administration experience, preferably with a hybrid bare-metal/cloud environment
- Strong communication skills, be willing to document systems and processes and collaborate with peers of varying technical expertise
- Comfortable operating across the stack, from cluster operations and infrastructure automation to backend service development
Skills
Required:Backend engineeringLinux and KubernetesPython or GoInfrastructure automationMonitoring/ObservabilityCI/CDCloud platformsCommunication
Benefits
- competitive compensation
- startup equity
- health insurance
- remote work flexibility
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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