# Platform Engineer

About us General Compute is the neocloud for alternative chips. Inference is fragmenting: purpose-built silicon from SambaNova, Cerebras, Positron, d-Matrix, and others already beats GPUs on decode, and we productionize that hardware - we buy the racks, find the data center space, and run it for our customers. Each piece of hardware runs the workload it's actually built for: prefill stays on GPUs, decode moves to the chip built for it, and today that means generating tokens 5-7× faster than existing GPU-based competitors. Our customers are frontier labs, fast-growing AI application companies, and asset-light clouds. We closed a $15M seed round in May 2026, and have since closed a $400M debt facility - $100M funded upfront by Upper90, with the balance available for drawdown - collateralized by our inference chips. About the role You will build the inference cloud itself - the control plane, API, and serving layer that turn racks into a sellable product. There's no existing platform team to inherit or manage, no legacy system to work around, and no established playbook to follow - just the platform itself to build, with reliability treated as core infrastructure from day one rather t

- **Id**: 1258067
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/general-compute-founding-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-14T18:28:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T05:37:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 58
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3061
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), AI Compute & Inference

## Company

- **Id**: 1776673
- **Name**: General Compute
- **Domain**: generalcompute.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/generalcompute>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 133000
- **Max usd**: 293000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 4424

## Technologies

- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **ZooKeeper** — Optional: no
- **Cerebras** — Optional: yes
- **Nomad** — Optional: yes
- **SLURM** — Optional: yes
- **TPU** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 58

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T19:36:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.435
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 57
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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