Source​/Platform Engineer

Position: Open-Source/ Platform Engineer
Job#: 3036961

Job Description:

Location:

Pleasanton, California (Remote)

Role Overview

The Open Source Engineer supports the research compute ecosystem powering imaging, LLM, agentic AI, and R-based analytics workloads. This role blends Linux engineering, Kubernetes administration, GPU cluster management, and open-source tooling. This is a technical, hands-on role for an individual who will support both hardware and software layers, help scale compute environments, and solve problems across a wide range of on-prem systems.

Key Responsibilities

* Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain on-prem Kubernetes clusters, and troubleshoot issues end-to-end.

* Serve as a Linux administrator, responsible for patching, maintaining, and troubleshooting Linux systems, including GPU nodes and compute clusters.

* Enhance and maintain Python-based image ingestion pipelines, replacing existing scripts with robust workflows that include validation and error handling.

* Install, upgrade, and maintain open-source research tools such as Git Lab, Vault, Jupyter Notebooks, R/RStudio, and H2O.

* Support medical imaging infrastructure, including understanding data flows and pulling images from various on-prem and cloud sources.

* Learn and support robotics systems and lab information management systems (LIMS) for specimen intake.

* Work with high-performance computing hardware, including GPU-dense systems and networking.

* Act as a secondary support for a senior engineer, requiring the ability to learn and adapt to unfamiliar systems quickly.

Required Qualifications

Education:

A Bachelor's degree is required.

Experience:

Must have strong experience in on-prem Kubernetes administration, not cloud-only. Proven experience with open-source tooling ecosystems and the ability to troubleshoot across Linux, Windows, hardware, and networking.

Technical

Skills:

Strong Linux administration experience. Strong Python skills for scripting and modifying code. Basic familiarity with R/RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks from a systems perspective.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience with GPU clusters.

* Experience with DICOM or medical imaging data.

* Experience with robotics or lab automation systems.

* Experience with Git Lab administration.

* Familiarity with secrets management tools like Vault.

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