Infrastructure Engineer at Material

About the role

Own the platform that powers our accelerator cloud. Your scope spans bare-metal provisioning, multi-tenant Kubernetes, SLURM scheduling, control planes, and the automation and observability that keep thousands of compute nodes running as a single production system.

What you'll do

• Build the control plane and APIs that unify our compute fleet

• Own provisioning and lifecycle from rack bring-up to node retirement

• Operate the scheduling layer for training and inference workloads

• Architect multi-tenancy: isolation, quota, fairness, and accounting

• Build automation that eliminates manual operations

• Drive reliability, observability, and incident response across the fleet

What you'll need

• BS in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering

• Advanced software engineering skills: Rust, Go, or Python

• Deep understanding of Linux, storage, and distributed systems

• Experience with workload schedulers: SLURM, Kubernetes scheduling, or equivalent

• Expertise with automation tooling: Terraform, Ansible, Helm

• Experience architecting multi-tenant systems

• Production SRE experience: on-call, incident response, observability

What we offer

• Top-tier compensation structured to recognize and retain the best talent

• Meaningful equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

• Parental leave for all new parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys

• Flexible PTO

• Paid Holidays

• Relocation support

Equal Employment Opportunity

We're an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status under applicable law.