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Our growing team brings together world-class researchers working across our offices in Zurich and San Francisco.\nThe Role\nAs a Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure, you'll join a small, high-impact team building the compute, systems, and tooling that power our research and robots, from GPU clusters and training infrastructure to the platforms that deploy models onto real hardware. We're hiring engineers with different strengths, and you'll own meaningful parts of the stack from day one.\nWhat you might work on\nDepending on your background, you'll focus on one or more of these areas:\nCompute platform & DevOps: Build and operate our internal platform for managing GPU clusters and scheduling workloads. Own reliability, observability, security, access control, and cost efficiency across our compute.\nDistributed systems & scaling: Scale our infrastructure as data volume, training runs, and robot fleets grow. 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