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# Member of Technical Staff - Research Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Black Forest Labs
- **Location:** Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Remote available)
- **Salary:** €100,000.0 - €230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Google Cloud, Reliability of Systems, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Slurm, Golang
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5878727421

## About the Role

* Experience building or operating large-scale training platforms
 * Worked with large scale compute clusters (GPUs)
 * Proven ability to debug performance and reliability issues across large distributed fleets
 * Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
 * Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both internal and external partners
 * Deep knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and GCP
 * Experience with SLURM
 * Experience building or operating large-scale training platforms

## Description

* Maintain research infrastructure, ensuring health, and optimizing components to extract peak performance from the system (both on application, and infrastructure side)
 * Scale infrastructure to meet growing research demands while maintaining reliability and performance
 * Collaborate with research teams to deeply understand their infrastructure needs, and design solutions that balance performance with cost efficiency.
 * Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and capacity hotspots through deep analysis of distributed systems at scale.
 * Build and evolve telemetry and monitoring systems to provide deep visibility into infrastructure performance, utilization, and costs across our cloud and datacenter fleets.
 * Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to maintain system reliability

Technical Focus

 * Python, Bash, Go
 * Kubernetes
 * Nvidia GPU drivers, and operators
 * OTel, Prometheus, We're a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. Depending on your role, you'll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected. We'll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible. We think in-person time matters, and we've structured things to make it accessible to all. We'll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process.


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