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You'd own uptime end-to-end: build health monitoring, improve logging, diagnose failures across nodes.\n\nInference scaling & compute strategy - We have an on-prem cluster but also use cloud providers, especially for production deployments. You'd evaluate cost/performance tradeoffs across cloud options as we scale, and also help manage growing on-prem resources for compute and storage.\n\nData pipelines & upstream reliability - Weather data comes from dozens of sources (satellites, government agencies, our own balloon observations) with varying schedules, incomplete documentation and sometimes failing or changing quality. You'd build pipelines for training and realtime data that gracefully handle upstream delays, do QC checks on data, and add logging and alerting for a zoo of edge cases.\n\nTraining infrastructure - Make distributed training runs reliable. They die from silent OOMs, network faults, and storage issues. 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