Apollo Research

AI Safety

SoftwareEngineer(Infrastructure)

$215–265k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Engineer (Infrastructure) at Apollo Research. Skills: Infrastructure as Code, Cloud infrastructure, Programming languages, Security. Set vision for platform. Build cloud infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

AI Safety
Problems you'll solve

Finding flaws; Reporting flaws; Remediating flaws

Eligibility Requirements

Visa sponsorship in the US

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering, working experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, in a multi-account and multi-project setup, Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), Experience with containerisation technologies like Docker, Experience designing and owning infrastructure for a growing engineering team, Experience building systems in programming languages like Python, Rust, Go, You've built and operated services that real users depend on, and you've been responsible for their uptime, reliability, and scaling

Nice to Have

Exposure to agentic AI workflows or building platforms that support AI/ML workflows, Familiarity with GPU workloads, ML training infrastructure, or research compute, Demonstrated interest in AI safety (e. g. worked at an AI safety org, relevant coursework or research)

What You'll Do.

Set vision for platform

Build cloud infrastructure

Maintain cloud infrastructure

Protect Apollo’s assets

Implement security controls

Create infrastructure for agent tooling

Work with security lead

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Talk with researchers and engineers; Work closely with security lead; Interact with research scientists and engineers

Process & Methodology

Propose a plan for what we build, why, and in what order

Full Job Description

## Description Applications deadline: We are conducting interviews actively and aim to fill this role as soon as we find someone suitable. THE OPPORTUNITY Apollo Research's mission is to reduce the risks from scheming frontier AI systems. We work with and are trusted by every frontier AI lab. We testtheirmodels before deployment and collaborate with them on scheming mitigations. We're looking for a Software Engineer to build the platform that the rest of Apollo runs on. This platform determines how quickly we can take on new research and scale our operations, whilst keeping our most valuable assets secure.  Apollo is fast-growing and fast-moving and this role is critical to enabling that growth and strengthening the trust of our partners, which is essential to our mission. ## RESPONSIBILITIES Help set the vision for the platform. As Apollo takes on greater and more complex research, the platform must keep pace. You'll talk with researchers and engineers, understand where things are heading, and propose a plan for what we build, why, and in what order. Build and maintain Apollo's cloud infrastructure. This means IaC, networking, environment management, observability, and cost control. Everything should be reproducible, auditable, and as automated as possible. Protect Apollo’s assets. Frontier labs trust us to evaluate their models pre-release. It is essential to build our infrastructure in such a way that our researchers can do this work securely so that labs continue to trust us. You’ll be a key part of this work, designing and implementing controls to keep these assets safe.. Keep things running. We run a collection of services for our team. When something breaks, you'll be one of the first people they come to for help. You know when a quick fix is fine and when you need to take the time to do it properly. Create infrastructure for agent tooling. As more of our team builds and deploys agents, you'll develop the platform that makes this safe, reliable, and maintaina

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