AI Infra Resident (1-Year Program)

Palo Alto, CA

About The Role

RadixArk is launching a full-time, paid, 1-year residency program for aspiring AI infrastructure engineers. You'll rotate across inference, training, kernels, compilers, and cluster infrastructure, working on real production systems alongside senior engineers. This is an opportunity to learn from the team behind SGLang and Miles while owning meaningful projects that impact thousands of developers.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (recent graduates welcome)

Strong foundations in systems programming, ML systems, or high-performance computing

Experience with Python and/or C++; exposure to CUDA, JAX, or distributed systems is a plus

Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and debug complex technical problems

Curiosity, grit, and willingness to dive deep into unfamiliar layers of the stack

Desire to grow into a world-class AI infrastructure engineer

Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively

Responsibilities

Join a full-time, paid, 1-year residency focused on AI infrastructure

Rotate across inference, training, kernels, compilers, and cluster infrastructure

Work on real production systems: LLM serving (SGLang), diffusion inference (Flux, Wan), RL training (Miles), schedulers, and performance tooling

Learn to debug failures across the full stack: model → runtime → kernel → hardware

Own meaningful projects with close mentorship from senior engineers

Contribute to SGLang, Miles, and other open-source projects

Document learnings and create guides for the community

Present technical deep-dives and share knowledge with the team

Participate in code reviews and learn engineering best practices

About RadixArk

RadixArk is an infrastructure-first company built by enggineers who've shipped production Al systems,created SGLang (20K+ GitHub stars,the fastest open LLM serving engine),and developed Miles(our large-scale RL framework). We're on a mission to democratize frontier-level Al infrastructure by building world-class open systems for inference and training. Our team has optimized kernels serving billions of tokens daily,designed distributed training systems coordinating 10,000+ GPUs, and contributed to infrastucture that powers leading Al companies and research labs. We're backed by well-known infrastructure investors and partner with NVIDIA, Google,AWS,and frontier Al labs. Join us in building infrastructure that givees real leverage back to the Al community.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation for this 1-year residency program, with health benefits and potential for conversion to a full-time role. Compensation is determined by location and prior experience. Strong residents may receive offers to join RadixArk full-time with equity after program completion.

Equal Opportunity

RadixArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (recent graduates welcome)

Strong foundations in systems programming, ML systems, or high-performance computing

Experience with Python and/or C++; exposure to CUDA, JAX, or distributed systems is a plus

Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and debug complex technical problems

Curiosity, grit, and willingness to dive deep into unfamiliar layers of the stack

Desire to grow into a world-class AI infrastructure engineer

Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively

Responsibilities

Join a full-time, paid, 1-year residency focused on AI infrastructure

Rotate across inference, training, kernels, compilers, and cluster infrastructure

Work on real production systems: LLM serving (SGLang), diffusion inference (Flux, Wan), RL training (Miles), schedulers, and performance tooling

Learn to debug failures across the full stack: model → runtime → kernel → hardware

Own meaningful projects with close mentorship from senior engineers

Contribute to SGLang, Miles, and other open-source projects

Document learnings and create guides for the community

Present technical deep-dives and share knowledge with the team

Participate in code reviews and learn engineering best practices

About RadixArk

RadixArk is an infrastructure-first company built by enggineers who've shipped production Al systems,created SGLang (20K+ GitHub stars,the fastest open LLM serving engine),and developed Miles(our large-scale RL framework). We're on a mission to democratize frontier-level Al infrastructure by building world-class open systems for inference and training. Our team has optimized kernels serving billions of tokens daily,designed distributed training systems coordinating 10,000+ GPUs, and contributed to infrastucture that powers leading Al companies and research labs. We're backed by well-known infrastructure investors and partner with NVIDIA, Google,AWS,and frontier Al labs. Join us in building infrastructure that givees real leverage back to the Al community.

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