Member of Technical Staff - Storage Infrastructure
Prime Intellect· Engineering
Remote$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 5d ago
About the role
role focused on building and operating storage systems to support frontier AI workloads, ensuring high-throughput, durable access to datasets, checkpoints, and model artifacts as GPU clusters scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate storage architectures for training datasets, checkpointing, inference artifacts, and shared research workflows
- Deploy and tune parallel filesystems, object storage, and local NVMe caching for demanding AI workloads
- Benchmark throughput, latency, metadata performance, and concurrent access with representative training and checkpoint workloads
- Build provisioning, capacity planning, lifecycle management, and operational automation for storage services
- Design and test replication, recovery, backup, and failure-handling procedures with explicit durability and availability targets
- Diagnose performance and reliability issues across applications, clients, networks, filesystems, and devices
- Implement access controls, tenant separation, quotas, monitoring, and runbooks; collaborate with compute and networking teams
Qualifications
- 3+ years building or operating production distributed storage systems
- Hands-on experience with at least one parallel or distributed filesystem or object storage platform, such as Lustre, BeeGFS, Ceph, or GPFS
- Strong Linux administration and performance troubleshooting skills
- Experience automating infrastructure operations in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages
- Understanding of storage failure modes, data integrity, consistency, replication, and recovery
Skills
Required:Storage architectures for AI workloadsParallel/filesystem/object storage deploymentPerformance benchmarkingAutomationReplication/backup/recovery design
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Prime Intellect
Commoditizing Compute & Intelligence
Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.
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