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We collect radio data from all over the world, train neural networks to decipher it, and run them on the smallest chips we can. We’re solving a new, technically hard problem where nothing from other fields works out of the box, and along the way, we’ve built our own stack from scratch, including entirely new embedding model architectures, custom GPU kernels, and much more.\nJoining DS means owning major parts of a fast-growing AI research organization, joining a collaborative, talent-dense team with decades of experience in probabilistic ML, accelerated computing, embedded systems, and signal theory, and growing your career in the areas that interest you. You’ll fit in if you want to come to work for the problem itself and don’t want to choose between technical rigor, business value, and real-world impact.\nWe work with high ownership and trust.\nThe Role\nEverything DS ship; inference services, data pipelines, agents, and the UI, it all runs on infrastructure this role owns. We're hiring a Platform Engineer to build the foundation that lets a fast-moving team deploy many times a day, scale to meet unpredictable load, and do it all securely.\nYou'll own our CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud deployment strategy, and you'll bring a DevSecOps mindset to how we build: security and compliance as part of the pipeline, not a gate at the end.\nWhat you'll do\nDesign, build, and operate our cloud infrastructure across environments using infrastructure-as-code; make it reproducible, reviewable, and easy to evolve.\n\nOwn CI/CD end to end: build pipelines, artifact management, testing gates, progressive delivery, and rollback strategies for services, ML models, and data jobs.\n\nAutomate infrastructure scaling and deployments, autoscaling for GPU and CPU workloads, capacity planning, and cost controls that keep our cloud spend proportional to value.\n\nEmbed security into the platform: secrets management, IAM and least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, dependency and container hardening, policy-as-code, and audit logging.\n\nBuild observability as a platform capability: metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and SLOs that engineers can adopt with minimal friction.\n\nRun large-scale cloud deployments reliably, including incident response and post-incident improvements.\n\nCreate developer tooling and paved paths so product engineers can ship safely without becoming infrastructure experts.\n\nWhat we're looking for\n4+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles supporting production systems at meaningful scale.\n\nHands-on DevSecOps experience and integrating security scanning, secrets handling, access control, and compliance checks directly into delivery pipelines.\n\nDeep experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.) and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).\n\nStrong experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure) at scale - compute, networking, storage, IAM, managed Kubernetes, and cost management.\n\nExpert-level infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation / CDK, or similar; plus configuration management or GitOps workflows.\n\nExperience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm) in production, including autoscaling and multi-environment management.\n\nSolid programming ability in Python, Go, or Bash for automation and tooling.\n\nStrong operational instincts: you think about failure modes, blast radius, and recover-ability before they become incidents.\n\nNice to have\nExperience running GPU workloads and ML infrastructure in the cloud.\n\nExperience with compliance frameworks and secure or air-gapped deployments (e.g., FedRAMP, CMMC, IL environments).\n\nFamiliarity with edge / hybrid deployments where cloud infrastructure coordinates with on-device or on-prem systems.\n\nExperience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).\n\nWho Thrives at Distributed Spectrum\nFast learners over specific backgrounds - We care more about how quickly you can pick up new skills than where you’ve worked before.\n\nIntellectual honesty - The right answer matters more than being right. You challenge assumptions, test ideas, and pivot when needed.\n\nAdaptability - We’re organized, but sometimes things change quickly. You find a way to make it work and balance short-term deliverables with long-term goals.\n\nOwnership of outcomes - You optimize your own time, focus on what matters to deliver quickly, and cut out inefficiencies.\n\nNot building in a vacuum - You stay connected to the rest of our teams and our customers to make sure all the pieces fit together.\n\nWhat We Offer\nAbove-market salary, equity, and benefits package.\n\nEarly Series A Equity\n\nExcellent health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n401(k) match - up to 4% of your salary\n\nFlexible PTO\n\nDaily office lunches in NYC\n\nITAR Requirements\n To conform to U.S. Government technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. 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