Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure

What you'll do

• Maintain agentic systems and supporting infrastructure, including local LLM inference, operating systems, networking, storage, and recovery.
• Build tools and improve observability, debugging, security, reliability, and automated failure recovery.
• Work with engineers to address recurring infrastructure needs and package systems for internal and customer deployment.

What they ask for

• 7+ years building and operating complex software and compute infrastructure, with hands-on hardware, operating systems, networking, and automation experience.
• Experience deploying an agentic harness such as OpenClaw, Hermes, SybilClaw, or a comparable system in a real work environment.
• Strong Linux and macOS systems experience; production experience with physical infrastructure, VMs, or containers; and networking fundamentals including routing, VLANs, DNS, and firewalls.
• Ability to build software, scripts, CLIs, and integrations; meaningful experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software.

Nice to have

• Experience with ITAR-regulated, air-gapped, export-controlled, or similarly constrained environments.
• Experience with local LLM inference, agent systems, internal developer infrastructure, or customer deployments.

Pay

$181,000 — $271,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

SybilClaw, yapCAD, Mechatron, Multigraph, OpenClaw, Hermes, Proxmox, Ollama

AI focus

Operate and improve agentic engineering systems, local LLM inference, model routing, context pipelines, inter-agent communication, and multi-agent infrastructure.