Member of Technical Staff, DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering

Member of Technical Staff, DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering

FirstPrinciples is a non-profit organization building an autonomous AI Physicist designed to advance humanity's understanding of the fundamental laws of nature. Our goal for the AI Physicist is to achieve a breakthrough that unifies quantum field theory & general relativity and to explain the deepest unresolved phenomena in our universe by 2035. To do this, we're pioneering a new approach to scientific discovery by creating an intelligent system that can explore theoretical frameworks, reason across disciplines, and generate novel insights. We're a non-profit that operates like a tech start-up by moving quickly and continuously iterating to accelerate scientific progress. By combining AI, symbolic reasoning, and autonomous research capabilities, we're developing a platform that goes beyond analyzing existing knowledge to actively contribute to physics research.

We're seeking a Member of Technical Staff, DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering to architect, automate, and scale the infrastructure that underpins our large-scale model training and research workflows. This role spans both cloud environments (AWS) and HPC infrastructure (Buzz & Lambda HPC GPU clusters with high-speed interconnects), requiring you to design and codify the systems, pipelines, and automation that enable our researchers and engineers to move fast with confidence. Our ideal candidate brings strong fundamentals in Unix / Linux, deep experience in CI / CD and infrastructure-as-code, and a systems mindset to define standards, build automation, and grow our infrastructure practice from the ground up. You'll be instrumental in building the reliable, scalable foundation that powers our autonomous AI Physicist while partnering closely with training engineers and researchers to accelerate breakthrough scientific discoveries.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and run large-scale pre-training experiments for both dense and MoE architectures, from experiment planning through multi-week production runs.
• Architect hybrid infrastructure solutions that span cloud and on-premises HPC environments seamlessly.
• Automate configuration management and drift detection using tools like Ansible, Salt, or Chef.
• Build systems that reduce operational toil and establish guardrails that let researchers focus on experiments, not operations.

CI / CD & Developer Experience :

HPC & GPU Cluster Management :

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability :

Security & Compliance :

Collaboration :

Qualifications :

Bonus Skills :

Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume, a cover letter detailing their qualifications and vision for the role, and references. Please include "Member of Technical Staff, DevOps / Infrastructure Engineering" in the cover letter.

Join us at FirstPrinciples and be a part of a transformative journey where science drives progress and unlocks the potential of humanity.