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Greylock Partners · 6 days ago

Founding Engineer, ML Infra (AI Systems)

Redwood City, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Greylock Partners is a stealth enterprise security startup backed by leading investors, building an AI-native platform. They are seeking a founding engineer to design and operate machine learning infrastructure and data pipelines, enabling scalable training and deployment of models in production.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect cloud-based ML infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure

Build automated pipelines for data ingestion, preprocessing, model training, validation, and deployment

Design real-time inference systems, feature pipelines, and streaming data pathways (Kafka, Pulsar, etc.)

Deploy and optimize ML models as microservices/APIs with a focus on latency, reliability, and cost

Implement CI/CD and MLOps workflows for versioning, retraining, monitoring, and drift detection

Manage containerized ML workloads using Kubernetes and related tooling

Partner with ML engineers to productionize deep learning models at scale

Shape the company’s long-term AI and ML infrastructure roadmap

Qualification

ML infrastructure designCloud services AWSCloud services GCPCloud services AzureDistributed systemsData pipelinesReal-time inference systemsMLOps workflowsContainer orchestration (Kubernetes)API design (REST/gRPC)Data modelingSoft skills

Required

7+ years building distributed backend systems, ideally supporting ML or data-intensive workloads

Strong cloud experience and familiarity with load balancers, gateways, object storage, queues/streams, and observability tooling

Knowledge of data/feature modeling, schema versioning, and API design (REST/gRPC)

Experience with real-time inference systems, streaming pipelines, or MLOps in production environments

Comfort operating in a fast-paced, early-stage setting with significant ownership

Benefits

Free candidate referrals/introductions to our active investments

Company

Greylock Partners

We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard.

Founded in 1965

Menlo Park, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.greylock.com

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