SandboxAQ - Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Requirements
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems. • Demonstrated experience leading high-impact engineering teams, including mentoring junior engineers and influencing technical strategy at a staff level. • Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP preferred) Kubernetes at scale. • Expertise in GPU/ML infrastructure for large training, data-generation, and inference workloads, including GPU scheduling, optimization and high-performance networking. • Strong ability to decompose complex technical problems into simplified, incremental, and actionable architectural designs. • Deep proficiency in architectural patterns for high-throughput, low-latency services. • Experience operating in high-growth environments where infrastructure requirements pivot rapidly due to new scientific or product discoveries. • Experience with multi-tenant, data governance, data registries, lineage, and federated access for model tuning with high IP sensitive environments • Worked in regulated / compliance-bound environments that have data residency, export controls, SOC2, and strict isolation requirements.
Responsibilities
• Lead Architectural Strategy: Define and execute the long-term vision for our infrastructure, designing resilient, distributed systems that support our rapidly growing AI workloads. • Lead Architectural Strategy: • Mentor and Develop Talent: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of high standards, code quality, and continuous learning. • Mentor and Develop Talent: • Systemic Problem Solving: Partner with engineering leads to diagnose complex technical bottlenecks and break down multifaceted infrastructure challenges using first principles into scalable, manageable technical requirements. • Systemic Problem Solving: • Drive Platform Excellence: Design and implement foundational platform services that improve developer experience and reduce operational overhead across the engineering organization. • Drive Platform Excellence: • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with product, research, and security teams to ensure our infrastructure is secure, performant, and aligned with the company’s broader mission. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally:
Benefits
• US Tier 1 - T4$184K – $276K • US Tier 2 - T4$165.6K – $248.4K • US Tier 3 - T4$147.2K – $220.8K • At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location. • With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us. • We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:For the US: • For the US: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Wash D.C., Boston • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Portland, Boulder, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, LA • Tier 2: • Tier 3: Everywhere else in the US • Tier 3: • For the UK: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of London, Cambridge, Oxford • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in the UK • Tier 2: • For Canada: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Toronto & Vancouver • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in Canada • Tier 2: • SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. • We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. • At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. • We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. • Career Defining Work: Your work will directly accelerate the discovery of better drugs and better materials, advance human health, and enable safer and more sustainable technologies by helping customers put AI Simulation capabilities into real world use. • Career Defining Work • Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. • Work-Life Balance: Fully remote, Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. • Work-Life Balance: • Learning and Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. • Learning and Growth: • SandboxAQ Welcomes All • We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. • Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. • Equal Employment Opportunity • Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. • Accommodations • Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews • Read: • Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
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