Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure

About Ironsite

The Role

What You'll Build

• Scale inference and training pipelines to support foundation model development on 15M+ hours of egocentric construction video
• Build custom data pipelines to manage and process first-person job site footage for our CV and VLM teams
• Design device-to-cloud ingestion systems for seamless, reliable data transfer from our wearable devices after every shift
• Deploy and optimize VLM inference on neural accelerator chips across many environments (edge, on premises, cloud, etc)
• Improve and scale our internal research platform and multi-environment compute orchestrator
• Solve video storage and distribution challenges at YouTube-scale across high-resolution footage
• Support automated reporting infrastructure delivering AI-powered productivity insights to field leaders by 5:00 AM daily
• Build privacy and compliance controls including automated face and phone blurring to protect workers on-site
• Ensure edge reliability on IP67-rated devices operating in harsh construction environments

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, ML systems, or platform engineering
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems, with a focus on IoT or embedded devices

• Experience architecting and maintaining large-scale data or training pipelines
• Familiarity with edge ML inference and neural accelerator chips
• Experience with IoT networking and traditional multi-environment HPC networking
• Proven ability to own the full lifecycle of systems across hardware, firmware, and software integration
• High surface-area observability across disciplines
• Multiple security facets for securing edge devices and video data across a large lifecycle

Location & Compensation

• San Francisco, CA (on-site)
• Hyper competitive salary and equity package
• Ability to purchase xPU or devices for development
• Full benefits including health, dental, vision, and 401k +6% match

Compensation