We are a nonprofit raising policymaker awareness about AI risks, aiming to slow potentially dangerous research and accelerate technical safety. We have ambitious goals and need to move fast. Come work with us! About Palisade

Mid/Senior-level position, remote full-time, your time zone is between UTC-3 and UTC+5 We are prioritizing senior candidates right now

As an Infrastructure and Build Engineer at Palisade, you'll work closely with our research and engineering teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure that accelerates our mission. You'll build tools that let our researchers deploy experiments quickly and efficiently.

What you'll do

1. Design and maintain our Kubernetes (on Talos) infrastructure that powers our research environments and deployment pipelines
2. Implement Nix-based reproducible builds and development environments to ensure consistent setups across the team
3. Develop and maintain automation tools using Python to streamline our research and deployment workflows
4. Build and improve our LLM observability stack using tools like LangFuse and LiteLLM to ensure our experiments are consistently logged
5. Collaborate with researchers to optimize infrastructure for large-scale AI model testing and evaluation

See the kind of work we do in About Palisade.

Our collaboration process

• We post daily statuses for each other to keep in sync regarding our directions. Each project has a daily sync, and there's a weekly lab demo to show off our results.
• We propose new ideas or directions by writing up a doc, sharing it, and getting comments. This enables async communication.
• Our median response time to each other is in hours, not minutes; we work in an independent and self-directed fashion. Your supervisor helps you maintain direction; colleagues help with the implementation; you keep track of your tasks and milestones.
• We offer high intellectual freedom and value curiosity. You are welcome to challenge anything we do.

What you'll need

Experience level

• 4+ years of relevant DevOps or infrastructure engineering experience