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Fleet Operations Engineer

Ornn · New York Office · On-site

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About Ornn

Compute trades in the world’s most opaque market. Ornn makes it something you can price, finance, and hedge with confidence. Backed by Link Ventures.

About the role

We're hiring a Fleet Operations Engineer to stand up, debug, and secure the systems that get GPUs into production. Build and operate low-level systems infrastructure across Linux environments, from bare metal to VMs to orchestration. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong low-level systems fundamentals, including OS internals, performance, and debugging
  • Excellent in Python
  • Deep familiarity with Linux environments
  • Effective communicator and independent problem solver. You will interface with customers, operators, and internal teams
  • A genuine interest in AI hardware: GPUs, accelerators, and the systems that feed them
More about this role

Ornn is building the financial infrastructure for AI compute. Our price indices are live on Bloomberg Terminal. We structure and trade compute hedging instruments. And we're now building a platform that brings exchange-grade mechanics like order management, matching, scheduling, and settlement to how compute capacity gets reserved and allocated. We're a lean team in New York, backed by leading venture and strategic investors.

We're hiring a Fleet Operations Engineer to stand up, debug, and secure the systems that get GPUs into production.

Build and operate low-level systems infrastructure across Linux environments, from bare metal to VMs to orchestration.

Provision and manage virtualized GPU compute (KVM/QEMU, GPU passthrough) alongside Kubernetes and Slurm workloads.

Write production-grade Python daily and contribute to Rust services.

Secure the node fleet with network segmentation, firewalls, access control, and secure-by-default configuration.

Own problems end to end in a fast-paced environment with minimal hand-holding.

Requirements

Strong low-level systems fundamentals, including OS internals, performance, and debugging.

Excellent in Python.

Deep familiarity with Linux...

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