Compute Engineer, R&D Technical Lead

About Us

We exist to make humanity more free. Technology has historically given people more time for the things they want to do, instead of things they have to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built—but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them—with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for compute qualification: methods, tooling, and the standards the lab holds hardware to.
• Own the hardest qualifications yourself: first silicon, new platforms, and the failures nobody can explain.
• Build the automation: test harnesses and data pipelines that multiply the lab's throughput.
• Represent Labs to vendors and the fleet: the technical voice on what's ready and what isn't.

Requirements

• You've been the senior technical voice in hardware validation or systems engineering.
• You've qualified early hardware, engineering samples, or first-run systems, and shipped the findings.
• You've built test automation others still use.
• Your failure analyses go to root cause, not to plausible.
• You mentor engineers up the debugging stack.

Nice to Have

• Accelerator architecture depth.
• Signal and power integrity exposure.
• Large-scale burn-in design.
• Vendor engineering relationships.

Pay

Compensation Range: $261K - $340K