Prime Intellect
Member of Technical Staff - Sandbox Platform
$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building production distributed systems from the ground up.
- Visa sponsorship
- Full visa sponsorship and relocation support
About the job
Build the distributed control plane and node-level runtime for a sandbox platform that runs secure workloads for frontier AI research and agentic applications.
What you'll do
- Build workload placement across bare-metal CPU and GPU workers, and node-level systems that launch and supervise secure microVMs.
- Own the sandbox APIs, SDK, and CLI, evolving them for reinforcement learning and agentic workflows.
- Partner with research, customers, and engineering to take systems from discovery and design through production adoption.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production distributed systems from the ground up.
- Strong systems programming experience and ability to design and implement high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.
- Strong Linux fundamentals and depth in at least one of virtualization, networking, storage, or workload isolation.
- Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Production Go is a major advantage; Rust, C++, or comparable systems-language experience is valued.
Pay
$150-300k USD base salary
Tools
Go, Rust, C++, Linux
AI focus
Build infrastructure for reinforcement learning, evaluation, and agentic workloads, including secure sandboxes used in frontier AI research.
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