# Senior Systems Engineer - AI Infrastructure at Clockwork

- Company: Clockwork
- What the company does: Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.clockwork.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: On Site, Palo Alto, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-01-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/5784829004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clockwork-senior-systems-engineer-ai-infrastructure/

## About the role

We're building infrastructure for fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed GPU training. You'll work at the intersection of GPU systems, high-speed networking, and distributed coordination—designing and implementing systems that run at scale. This is a systems building role. You'll dig into internals, understand why things break under pressure, and design solutions that handle the messy reality of distributed systems.

## What they're looking for

- Kernel subsystems, device drivers, or OS-level components
- Distributed storage, databases, or coordination systems
- Runtimes, profilers, or performance tooling
- Network stacks, protocols, or high-performance I/O systems
- Large-scale infrastructure at the systems layer
- Strong C/C++ in systems contexts (not just application code)