Job description
**Pay:** $80-$120 per hour (USD).
**Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.**
# 1. Overview
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team and help build foundational AI models from the ground up. We're seeking talented DevOps, SRE and Infrastructure Engineers with hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD to bring real-world operational judgment and elevate the quality of our AI training data.
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.
# 2. Key Responsibilities
- Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in DevOps and infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, and reliability and observability topics.
- Design challenging, domain-relevant tasks, and write accurate and well-structured solutions to DevOps and infrastructure engineering problems.
- Evaluate DevOps and infrastructure engineering tasks and solutions and provide clear, written technical feedback.
- Build and evaluate realistic infrastructure tasks such as Kubernetes manifests, Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines and incident debugging scenarios.
- Develop rubrics to assess infrastructure design, security posture, reliability and cost tradeoffs.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
# 3. Core Qualifications
- 4+ years of dedicated professional experience in DevOps, SRE, platform or infrastructure engineering at a recognized, top-tier organization.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes and containers (Docker), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation).
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure) and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar).
- Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or Go.
- Demonstrable career progression.
- Ability to engage reliably for at least 20 hours/week during weekdays.
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly.
**About Cincinnatus LLC:**
Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company that partners with leading technology companies to source and employ highly skilled professionals for contingent and contract-based opportunities. Cincinnatus serves as the employer of record for these engagements, providing W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance, while placing employees directly within client teams to work on high-impact initiatives.
**Equal Employment Opportunity:**
Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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