- Robot type
- Humanoid · Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Palo AltoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Aug 27, 2026
AI Infrastructure Engineer, Distributed Training, Optimus
Job description
As a Software Engineer for the Optimus team, you will build the tools and infrastructure to make and measure improvements to neural network architecture, visualize data, assist with exporting and deploying neural networks to the bot, and evaluate experimental results. You will help us automate the entire workflows of training, validation, and production of the Optimus. Most importantly, you will see your work repeatedly shipped to and utilized by thousands of Humanoid Robots in real world applications.
Job responsibilities
- Build and improve our Python training infrastructure for stable and faster training
- Build the tooling and infrastructure for reporting and visualizing model metrics and performance
- Build the pipelines to run and validate our PyTorch models
- Manage, analyze, and visualize our training and test datasets
- Coordinate with the team managing the hardware cluster to maintain high availability / jobs throughput for Machine Learning
- Build and improve tooling to deploy trained neural nets to Tesla hardware
Job requirements
- Practical experience programming in Python and/or C++
- Proficient in system-level software, particularly hardware-software interactions and resource utilization
- Understanding of modern machine learning concepts and state of the art deep learning
- Experience working with training frameworks, ideally PyTorch
- Demonstrated experience scaling neural network training jobs across clusters of GPU’s
- Optional: Previous experience in deep learning deployment
- Optional: Profiling and optimizing CPU-GPU interactions (pipelining compute/transfers, etc)
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