Calder

Technology

SeniorSoftwareEngineer-Platform

$175–250k ~AI est. Redwood City, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer - Platform at Calder. Skills: Platform engineering, Infrastructure engineering, MLOps, Cloud infrastructure. Engineer data processing infrastructure. Design scalable GPU compute pipelines”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure reliability; Ensure cost efficiency; Ensure fast iteration; Contribute to SLAs

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Systems thinking

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Large scale production experience, AWS experience, Container orchestration grasp, GPU workloads experience, Infrastructure-as-code proficiency, Pipeline orchestration experience, Systems thinking, B.S. or M.S. degree

Nice to Have

Data versioning systems experience, 3D data processing background, Computer vision background, Robotics infrastructure background, Medallion/data lake architectures familiarity, Datadog experience

What You'll Do.

Engineer data processing infrastructure

Design scalable GPU compute pipelines

Design scalable CPU compute pipelines

Operate GPU compute pipelines

Operate CPU compute pipelines

Assist in pipeline development

Ensure workload reliability

Ensure workload observability

Ensure workload recovery

Manage cloud infrastructure

Leverage cloud infrastructure

Balance performance with cost

Build data versioning infrastructure

Maintain data versioning infrastructure

Build data lineage infrastructure

Maintain data lineage infrastructure

Instrument pipelines with metrics

Instrument pipelines with alerting

Utilize infrastructure-as-code practices

Utilize CI/CD for infrastructure

Collaborate with teams

Understand workload requirements

Translate requirements into capabilities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

3DGS teams; SLAM teams; QA teams; Delivery teams; Infrastructure engineering team

Process & Methodology

CI/CD

Full Job Description

About us: Calder is solving the data bottleneck for embodied AI and world models. Today's AI models lack the real-world, 4D data needed to reason on spatial problems and operate in physical environments. We capture, process, and deliver high-fidelity human-generated spatial data at scale, providing the substrate that trains the next generation of generalizable models for manipulation, navigation, and interaction. About the Role: You'll architect and scale the infrastructure that processes terabytes of 3D data daily, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and fast iteration for the engineering teams that depend on it. - Engineer Calder's data processing infrastructure — compute orchestration, storage, scheduling, and monitoring - Design and operate scalable GPU and CPU compute pipelines for 3D data processing workloads (SLAM, reconstruction, Gaussian Splatting training, dataset extraction) - Assist in the development of pipeline orchestration systems, ensuring workloads run reliably, are observable, and recover gracefully from failures - Manage and leverage cloud infrastructure (AWS) including ECS/Fargate, EC2 GPU instances, S3, and networking — balancing performance with cost - Build and maintain data versioning and lineage infrastructure (e.g., LakeFS, data lake architecture) - Contribute to SLAs for data processing throughput and reliability; instrument pipelines with metrics and alerting - Utilize infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform) and CI/CD for infrastructure changes - Collaborate with 3DGS, SLAM, QA, and delivery teams to understand workload requirements and translate them into platform capabilities - Mentor and grow yourself and others in a small infrastructure engineering team About you: - Large scale production experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or MLOps. - Experience with AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch) or equivalent cloud platform - Strong grasp of container orchestration (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes) and compute

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