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TypeSafe AI

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Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure (Kubernetes Specialist)

Location
San Francisco Office, San Francisco, California, United States
Work arrangement
On-site
Job type
Full-time
Compensation
$150K – $250K • Offers Equity

About the role

Posted Mar 6, 2026

About TypeSafe

TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software by combining the intelligence of LLMs with the efficiency and reliability of code into a new shape of AI: System One Models. Based in San Francisco, TypeSafe AI recently launched its first public model, Jev.

While others chase benchmarks and academic puzzles, we’ve been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles — building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production.

We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors. Since mid-2024, we’ve been engineering the foundation for what comes after the current “state-of-the-art” — a model that actually gets things done.

About the role

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind TypeSafe AI's products at global scale. You'll own the systems that serve millions of users across regions — from provisioning Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds to optimizing networking for low-latency AI inference.

This is a high-impact role on a small, fast-moving team. You'll work across the full infrastructure stack: cloud primitives, container orchestration, networking, observability, and the specialized infra that makes large-scale model inference efficient.

What you'll do

  • Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions and clouds

  • Build and maintain infrastructure for the platform that powers LLM inference workloads globally

  • Own networking, including VPCs, peering, load balancing, DNS, service mesh, CNI

  • Manage GPU infrastructure and autoscaling for ML workloads

  • Write and maintain infrastructure as code (Pulumi / Python)

  • Operate and improve observability: monitoring, alerting, tracing, logging

Requirements

  • Deep experience with Kubernetes in production at scale: networking, storage, scheduling, upgrades

  • Strong background in AWS

  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform, or similar)

  • Solid understanding of Linux networking

  • Track record with high-traffic production ML systems

  • Programming fluency, Python preferred

Nice to have

  • Experience with large-scale LLM / ML inference infrastructure (GPU scheduling, model serving, vLLM, KubeRay, Kubernetes-native tooling)

  • Kubernetes networking depth with Cilium or other CNI plugins; service mesh (Istio, Envoy)

  • Multi-cloud infrastructure

  • Background in site reliability engineering including SLOs, incident response, capacity planning

Life at TypeSafe

We’re a small, flat, close-knit team working to make intelligence dependable enough to become part of everyday software. We work fully in person from our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care deeply about the work.

We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won’t stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow—as a team and as individuals.

We value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don’t try to be machines.

We want TypeSafe to be the place where you do the most impactful work of your career and help define our future as a company.

We provide

  • Base salary of $150k–250k plus equity, based on leveling

  • 100% covered health insurance

  • Daily lunch and dinner

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

At a glance

Location
San Francisco Office · San Francisco, California, United States
Workplace
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Team
Member of Technical Staff
Compensation
$150K – $250K • Offers Equity
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The company

TypeSafe AI

TypeSafe AI

TypeSafe AI develops AI models for automated decision-making in software, helping developers classify, score, and route information through structured outputs with confidence estimates that guide when to act or request human review.

Growth11–50 employeesInfra

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