About the Role
The Model Shaping team at Together AI focuses on tailoring open foundation models for downstream applications. As a Platform Engineer, you will build the foundational layers of Together’s platform for model customization and evaluation, designing, developing, and operating backend services and underlying systems to scale production workflows and research experiments. You will collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and researchers, and integrate services with other teams at Together.
Responsibilities
- Design and build Together’s systems and infrastructure for model customization, including user-facing features and internal improvements
- Contribute to reliability improvements for the platform, participating in an on-call rotation and improving processes for incident response
- Create and improve internal tooling for deployment, continuous integration, and observability
- Build a job orchestration platform spanning multiple datacenters, supporting a highly heterogeneous hardware landscape
- Partner with teams developing internal services, co-designing these services and incorporating them in systems built within Together
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in building infrastructure or backend components of production services
- Extensive experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production Linux environments and Kubernetes-based platforms
- Strong software engineering background in Python or Go
- Experienced with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Cloud environment (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) administration experience, preferably with a hybrid bare-metal/cloud environment
- Strong communication skills, be willing to document systems and processes and collaborate with peers of varying technical expertise
- Comfortable operating across the stack, from cluster operations and infrastructure automation to backend service development
Skills
- Python
- Go
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
- ArgoCD
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Kubeflow
- Argo Workflows
- Flyte
- NVIDIA networking stack
- NCCL
- Mellanox firmware
- GPUDirect RDMA
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- routing
- load balancing
- TLS
- network debugging tools
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $290,000
Benefits
- Startup equity
- Health insurance
- Flexibility in terms of remote work
About the Company
- Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company.
- We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society.
- Our mission is to significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models.
- We have contributed to leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI.
- Our team has been behind technological advancements such as FlashAttention, RedPajama, SWARM Parallelism, and SpecExec.
- Join a passionate group of researchers in building the next generation AI infrastructure.
Equal Opportunity
- Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.
