Senior Engineering Manager, AI Infrastructure

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter. Our base salary range is $146,880 - $220,320, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package. Who You Are: We are seeking a Senior Manager, AI Infrastructure to run the day-to-day operation of the systems that power our research. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will own the execution and reliability of our high-performance computing (HPC) environment which includes on-prem GPU clusters and the software orchestration layer that schedules workloads across a hybrid cloud environment. This is a hands-on operational leadership role: your mandate is to keep the platform fast, reliable, and well-utilized, and to deliver against the roadmap set with your PM counterpart. Our ideal candidate is a: Systems Expert: You have a deep, hands-on understanding of the Linux kernel, container runtimes, and distributed systems. You understand the performance implications of InfiniBand topologies and NCCL optimizations. Execution-Focused Leader: You plan and deliver against near-term operational goals, keep reliability and researcher velocity high, and turn priorities set with leadership into shipped, dependable systems. Pragmatic Operator: You are comfortable making trade-offs between technical elegance and operational necessity. You triage and mitigate immediate risks, and know when to handle something yourself versus escalate. Who We Are: Ai2 is a non-profit research institute at the forefront of open-source AI development. Unlike industry peers, our goal is to share our findings, data, code, and models with the global scientific community. Why Ai2: Open Science: Your work directly enables the release of open models like OLMo, providing the broader research community with tools they can't get elsewhere. Mission-Dri