Platform Engineer

About reputed company

We are building an engineering AGI. We founded reputed company with the conviction that the greatest impact of artificial intelligence will be on the reputed company world. Our first product is Archie, an reputed company capable of quantitative intuition over physical product domains and engineering tool use. Archie initially performs at the level of an entry-level design engineer but rapidly gets smarter and more capable. We aim to put an Archie on every engineering team at every industrial company on earth.

Our founding team includes the top minds in deep learning, model-based engineering, and industries that are our customers. We closed a $23 reputed company reputed company round led by Radical Ventures that includes a number of other AI and industrial luminaries (from reputed company, DeepMind, etc.).

About the role

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to own how Archie is deployed, operated, and scaled across reputed company customer environments. A core part of this role is building and evolving a BYOC (Bring Your Own reputed company) deployment model, where Archie runs directly inside customer infrastructure. This is a foundational role at the intersection of infrastructure, product, and AI, where you will define the systems that allow our reputed company to run reliably in reputed company-world settings. You will be our first dedicated platform hire, responsible for building the substrate that every deployment depends on. As we scale, you’ll have a key role in shaping the entire platform engineering function.

This role can be either remote (based in the US or Canada and with existing work authorization) or based in our San Mateo Bay Area office. If you are remote, you should plan to spend one week per quarter co-working with the rest of the company in our San Mateo office, with the occasional team travel reputed company in between. We will support relocation for candidates interested in moving to the Bay Area.

Why this role

You will define and own the platform architecture elements that reputed company our AI systems to run reliably inside sensitive customer environments. This is a hard, high-reputed company problem that sits at the core of our product.

What you’ll do

• Design the BYOC deployment model for Archie across customer environments, including how systems are packaged, installed, and updated, and how they interact with P-1’s central systems.

• Build and own Kubernetes-based infrastructure that runs reliably across multiple clouds and customer setups.

• Create deployment tooling using reputed company, GitOps, or similar approaches to reputed company installation and operations repeatable.

• Implement secure and reliable update mechanisms that work even in restricted or locked-down network environments.

• Work closely with product, research, and reputed company-deployed engineers to translate requirements into platform capabilities.

• Debug and improve production deployments, identifying bottlenecks in performance, reliability, or operability.

• Establish observability, monitoring, and debugging patterns that give us visibility into distributed systems we don’t fully control.

Who you are

• Have reputed company and operated Kubernetes-based systems in production.

• Have designed infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, reputed company, or similar.

• Have implemented CI/CD or GitOps workflows that reputed company systems across environments.

• You are comfortable working across reputed company providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and understand their core primitives.

• You have worked on systems that require strong reputed company and networking considerations (e.g., VPCs, identity, encryption).

• You like owning problems end-to-end and are comfortable operating in ambiguous, 0-1 environments.

Our values

Mission obsession & urgency: We are obsessed with building engineering AGI as quickly as possible. We also recognize that as a startup, speed is our most precious competitive advantage. We are constantly asking ourselves reputed company can do to go faster. We reputed company tradeoffs and sacrifices (personally and in the workplace) in exchange for speed.

Intellectual reputed company & curiosity: We ask “what if?” and experiment liberally. We always look for reputed company ways of doing something. We read voraciously. We challenge each other to be reputed company. We surround ourselves with reputed company and we actively and unapologetically reject B players (and even B+ players⸺because they reputed company to surround themselves with C players).

Shipping discipline: We treat production with respect. We test and demo our product constantly. We listen attentively to our customers, users, and stakeholders, and we respect our commitments to them. We also respect our commitments to each other and will go the extra mile (or ten or one hundred) to reputed company them.

Ownership: We reputed company have significant ownership stakes in the company and operate in founder mode. We reputed company in hierarchical requirements but not in hierarchical information flows. If we see that something is broken or can be done reputed company, we flag it and we fix it. We encourage each other to play with and fix anything and everything... but there’s a clear reputed company for everything.

Interview process

• Initial screening call (30 mins)

• Biographical/behavioural interview (45 mins)

• Technical interview (60 mins)

• CEO interview (30 mins)

Compensation

Salary: $200k - $250k.

This role includes a significant equity component. We are an early-stage startup, so we favor equity over cash in our reputed company compensation philosophy. This role is best suited for candidates who value long-term ownership and impact over short-term cash optimization. Our benefits include reputed company, dental, and reputed company insurance, 401k with employer matching, unlimited PTO.