Member of Technical Staff - Research Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid (Freiburg / SF)€100k - €230k + equityPosted 10mo ago
About the role
Role focused on building and maintaining the scalable research infrastructure to support large-scale training and research at Black Forest Labs, with heavy emphasis on distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and collaboration with research teams.
Responsibilities
- Maintain research infrastructure, ensuring health, and optimizing components to extract peak performance from the system (both on application, and infrastructure side)
- Scale infrastructure to meet growing research demands while maintaining reliability and performance
- Collaborate with research teams to deeply understand their infrastructure needs, and design solutions that balance performance with cost efficiency.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and capacity hotspots through deep analysis of distributed systems at scale.
- Build and evolve telemetry and monitoring systems to provide deep visibility into infrastructure performance, utilization, and costs across our cloud and datacenter fleets.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain system reliability
Qualifications
- Experience building or operating large-scale training platforms
- Worked with large scale compute clusters (GPUs)
- Proven ability to debug performance and reliability issues across large distributed fleets
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both internal and external partners
- Deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP
- Experience with SLURM
- Experience building or operating large-scale training platforms
Skills
Required:PythonBashKubernetesNvidia GPU drivers, and operatorsOTel, Prometheus
Nice to have:Go
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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