Role Summary:To meet our ambitious goals we are building an internal, grounded, agentic AI system that accelerates our research, and we are hiring a Platform and Infrastructure Engineer to build the body and nervous system it runs on. This is a foundational, high-reward role for someone who makes a system both reliable and locked-down at the same time. In this role you will turn our owned hardware, an on-premises AI computer and database, into a real working platform: reliable local model serving, an on-prem database that serves as both the search index and the provenance and audit store, and a sandboxed execution environment where AI-generated code runs without reaching the internet or touching sensitive data. The single most important instruction in this role is to bake trust-boundary discipline into the codebase from day one, so that hardening it into a fully locked-down enclave later is a migration, not a rewrite. This role is onsite in Torrance, California.
Key Responsibilities:- Build reliable local model serving and data infrastructure on owned, on-premises hardware.
- Stand up a sandboxed code-execution environment with default-deny networking.
- Implement the provenance and audit store that records where every fact came from.
- Design the early system already shaped like the secure end-state, with data-classification and boundary discipline built in.
- Wear several hats as a founding generalist and later hand specialties to dedicated hires.
Required Qualifications:- Deep backend and systems engineering with genuine bare-metal or on-premises experience, not cloud-only.
- Real sandboxing and untrusted-code-isolation depth, for example network namespaces, seccomp, or egress filtering.
- A security instinct that shows up as default-deny defaults and auditable, versioned infrastructure.
- Comfort being a founding generalist who later hands specialties to dedicated hires.
- A self-starter who thrives amid ambiguity and rapid iteration.
Preferred Qualifications:- A defense, aerospace, or regulated-data background that makes the enclave mindset second nature.
- Experience running your own GPU fleet rather than renting cloud compute.
- Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and GPU-serving infrastructure.
- Prior work in deep tech R&D alongside interdisciplinary teams.
What We Offer:- Chance to solve one of the world's biggest engineering challenges and pioneer quantum energy storage.
- Competitive salary, equity in a transformative startup, and performance-based incentives.
- Access to cutting-edge labs, tools, and resources in a flexible, collaborative work environment.
- Comprehensive benefits: health insurance, unlimited PTO, professional development stipend, and relocation assistance if needed.
- A culture of innovation where your work will accelerate our path to market impact.
If you're excited to tackle this real-world quantum problem and build the energy systems of the future, apply with your resume and cover letter detailing relevant projects.
