Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure / DevOps

Plato

$130K — $180K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in building or operating distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Proven background in developing orchestration platforms or developer tooling.
  • Strong debugging skills across infrastructure and application workflows.
  • Deep understanding of reliability, observability, isolation, and cost efficiency in system design.
  • Ability to collaborate with researchers to convert ambiguous workflows into structured processes.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate purpose-built infrastructure for reinforcement learning applications.
  • Scale environment virtual machines, snapshots, and storage-efficient forks.
  • Design orchestration systems for agent fleets conducting extensive research experiments.
  • Create telemetry, logging, and observability systems for concurrent agent sessions.
  • Enhance reliability and developer experience across the infrastructure stack.
  • Collaborate with research engineers to transition experimental workflows into production systems.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI research and infrastructure development.
  • Collaborative environment with researchers to impact core product infrastructure.
  • Chance to innovate and improve systems directly affecting research outcomes.
  • Focus on building reliable and scalable systems with real-world applications.
Full Job Description
Role Description

You will build and operate the infrastructure behind long-horizon agent experiments, including environment VMs, storage-efficient snapshots and forks, orchestration for parallel agent fleets, shared workspaces, verifier workers, telemetry pipelines, deployment systems, and the operational tooling that lets researchers run thousands of experiments without thinking about the machinery underneath.

This is not conventional cloud plumbing. You will be building infrastructure that directly shapes the quality, speed, and reliability of Plato's research.

You Will Work On
  • Build and operate purpose-built infrastructure for RL rollouts, long-running agent tasks, and environment synthesis jobs.
  • Scale environment VMs, snapshots, checkpointing, persistent sandboxes, and storage-efficient forks.
  • Design orchestration systems for fleets of agents that crawl, synthesize, evaluate, debug, and rerun experiments.
  • Build telemetry, logging, tracing, replay, and observability systems for thousands of concurrent agent sessions.
  • Improve reliability, cold starts, uptime, cost efficiency, isolation, and developer experience across the infrastructure stack.
  • Partner with research engineers to turn experimental workflows into repeatable, production-grade systems.


What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is excited to work close to the metal of AI infrastructure and enjoys turning ambiguous research workflows into reliable systems.

You may be a strong fit if you:
  • Have experience building or operating distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, orchestration platforms, or developer tooling.
  • Are comfortable debugging across infrastructure, application, and research workflows.
  • Care deeply about reliability, observability, isolation, and cost efficiency.
  • Enjoy working with researchers and engineers to turn messy, fast-moving workflows into durable systems.
  • Want to build infrastructure that is part of the core product, not just internal support tooling.

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