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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

SandboxAQ· AI Simulation
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Remote$184k - $276kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role within the Platform & Infrastructure team at SandboxAQ, focused on architectural strategy, scalable core services, and mentoring engineers to elevate platform reliability and performance for AI workloads.

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.

Qualifications

  • 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.

Skills

Required:Architectural design and strategyDistributed systemsCloud-native infrastructureGPU/ML infrastructure

Benefits

  • Career Defining Work: accelerate discovery of better drugs and materials, advance human health, and enable safe AI simulation applications.
  • Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.
  • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits.
  • Work-Life Balance: Fully remote, Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements.
  • Learning and Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and internal learning programs.
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About SandboxAQ

Transforming the World with AI and Advanced Computing

SandboxAQ leverages the compound effects of AI and advanced computing to address some of the biggest challenges impacting society. SandboxAQ technologies include AI simulation, cryptography management for cybersecurity, and AI sensing for global organizations.

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