Platform Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure
Austin, TX, USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
Kirkland, WA, USA - Experience
- 4 years of CPU, dGPU, or TPU debug/validation; 4 years of technical infrastructure experience; 3 years of hardware debug experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Supports Google Cloud customers by diagnosing AI infrastructure hardware and platform issues, driving root-cause resolution, and improving tools and products.
What you'll do
- Diagnose customer issues and develop investigation tools to improve productivity on AI/ML infrastructure.
- Debug hardware and silicon issues, reproduce problems, determine root causes, and drive permanent improvements.
- Collaborate with Product, Quality, Engineering, and SRE teams to resolve complex deployment and operational obstacles.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or another technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU.
- 4 years of experience with technical infrastructure deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, quality, and reliability.
- 3 years of hardware debug experience; experience debugging across the stack and with Linux/Unix systems on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed systems and AI/ML computing hardware, including GPUs or other accelerators.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or Slurm, systems automation, ML frameworks, and memory and high-speed IO technologies.
Pay
$159000 - $230000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CPU, dGPU, TPU, Linux/Unix, Kubernetes, Slurm, TensorFlow, PyTorch
AI focus
Troubleshoots AI/ML infrastructure and computing hardware, investigates AI/ML workloads, and supports understanding of the training and inference lifecycle.
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