Chai Discovery
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
San Francisco office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Nov 25, 2025
About the job
Build and operate compute infrastructure that supports Chai Discovery’s models, scientific products, and autonomous research.
What you'll do
- Bring new compute clusters online and maintain systems used across the business.
- Work across teams to address performance and reliability bottlenecks.
- Optimize model inference and serving, and build shared storage and security foundations for safe use of compute and data.
What they ask for
- Depth in distributed systems, compute infrastructure, and performance engineering.
- Demonstrated ownership of substantial production systems.
- Ability to reason across system layers and make tradeoffs among complexity, reliability, and efficiency.
AI focus
Optimize inference and serving for AI models, and provide compute infrastructure for model research and autonomous research.
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