Engineer, Supercomputing & Distributed Systems
Krea· 01. Engineering
San Francisco$0Full-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Engineering role focused on building and operating Krea's AI research and inference infrastructure, including distributed training, large-scale GPU clusters, petabyte-scale data pipelines, and custom data/streaming systems.
Responsibilities
- Design multi-stage pipelines that turn petabytes of raw data into clean, annotated datasets
- Run classification models on billions of images
- Deploy and combine LLMs to caption massive multimedia data
- Manage distributed training and inference on 1000+ GPU Kubernetes clusters
- Solve orchestration and scaling for large-scale GPU job processing
- Scale workloads and research between clusters in multiple datacenters
- Profile and optimize dataloaders streaming thousands of images per second
- Profile and debug InfiniBand networking on huge training runs
- Build fault tolerance systems for large-scale pretraining
- Collaborate with researchers on evolving RL infrastructure
- Find clean scenes in millions of videos using distributed shot-boundary detection
- Customize and train models to filter billions of images for questions like "is this a screenshot?"
- Build the systems that bridge raw cluster capacity and research output
Qualifications
- Strong intuition for distributed systems and how systems interact under different conditions
- Experience with Python, Kubernetes, Torch, and data tools like DuckDB, Arrow, etc.
- Experience with K8s or ML is not required if distributed systems intuition is strong
Skills
Required:PythonKubernetesTorch / PyTorchDistributed systems design
Nice to have:Data tooling (DuckDB, Arrow, SQL)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
- Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
- Flexible PTO policy
- 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
- Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner
- Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
- Sponsorship: open to sponsoring international visas where possible (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3)
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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