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ML Infra Engineer, Platform

Physical Intelligence · San Francisco · On-site

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About Physical Intelligence

Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Sequoia.

About the role

Own and scale AI-native infrastructure: You will operate and evolve Kubernetes clusters and service deployment patterns, and help build a scalable microservice platform for internal systems such as evaluation services, operational tooling, and internal APIs with agent-use as the primary interface. This includes supporting safe rollouts, upgrades, and rollback strategies. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience with large-scale ML training, evaluation, or simulation infrastructure
  • Experience with secrets management systems (e.g., Doppler)
  • Background in observability, cost optimization, or internal platform tooling
  • Exposure to robotics, simulation, or real-time systems
  • Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records
More about this role

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a team of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.

The Infrastructure team builds and operates the backbone of everything PI does: from training state-of-the-art VLA models, to orchestrating large-scale simulation, to reliably deploying intelligence across fleets of physical robots. The team works closely with researchers, robotics runtime, product, and platform engineers to ensure infrastructure scales from prototype to production-grade deployments.

Own and scale AI-native infrastructure: You will operate and evolve Kubernetes clusters and service deployment patterns, and help build a scalable microservice platform for internal systems such as evaluation services, operational tooling, and internal APIs with agent-use as the primary interface. This includes supporting safe rollouts, upgrades, and rollback strategies.

Drive security, observability and cost-aware infrastructure: You will treat security, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting as...

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