As an Infrastructure & Platform Engineer at Vorticity, you’ll design and maintain the core systems that power scientific computing at scale. You’ll build APIs and data services that connect researchers to our high-performance backend, manage distributed workloads, and ensure the platform’s reliability and scalability.
This role is ideal for engineers who love working close to the metal while building developer-friendly interfaces and tools. You’ll help bridge scientific software and modern infrastructure — enabling Vorticity’s mission to radically accelerate human discovery.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable backend APIs powering our scientific computation platform.
Architect and manage the infrastructure that supports large-scale compute clusters and distributed workflows.
Build automation tools for provisioning, monitoring, and managing cloud and on-prem compute resources.
Implement observability systems (logging, metrics, tracing) for distributed services.
Manage data pipelines and services integrating large, multi-format scientific datasets.
Requirements
3+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
Strong proficiency in Python and experience designing and maintaining REST or gRPC APIs.
Strong foundation in backend development, microservices, and distributed systems.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
Understanding of system monitoring, alerting, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana).
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, HTTP, load balancing, security).
Preferred Skills
Passion for scientific computing, high-performance systems, and engineering excellence.
Familiarity with HPC, GPU computing, or scientific simulation systems.
Experience with cloud networking, VPC management, and hybrid infrastructure.
Familiarity with container orchestration across heterogeneous compute (CPU/GPU/FPGA).
Experience with on-premise infrastructure.
Experience with performance profiling and debugging at the system level.
As passionate scientists and engineers, we are well aware of the plethora of critical problems in the world that cannot be solved because humanity simply does not have enough computing power. To address this, Vorticity is developing a radically new silicon chip architecture and system to dramatically accelerate scientific computing problems.
Vorticity’s mission is to expand human ingenuity. To do that we are building a team of exceptional people to work together on big problems. Join us!