Infrastructure & Systems Lead

Overview

Pantograph is training general models that start by watching internet-scale video and end up on robots. We think the path to capable robots runs through general intelligence rather than narrow, robot-specific skills. We're scaling simple methods across video games, real-world video, and our own fleet of affordable, durable robots.

We're looking for someone to architect and own the entire infrastructure pipeline behind that fleet: thousands of robots with embedded GPUs, communicating over wifi to inference clusters, streaming tens of petabytes of video to training clusters, with new model weights deployed every few minutes — all operating within strict real-time latency budgets.

This role requires someone who can hold an entire system in their head and optimize it end-to-end. You'll touch networking, storage, databases, embedded software, deployment systems, and GPU optimization — and you'll own the architecture decisions that tie them together.

• Design and own the infrastructure pipeline for thousands of robots with embedded GPUs, including networking, storage, databases, and deployment systems
• Optimize end-to-end system performance to meet real-time latency budgets
• Coordinate streaming of video data from fleets to training and inference clusters
• Lead architecture decisions and drive implementation across multiple subsystems

• Designed and operated large-scale distributed systems from scratch
• Managed fleets of hundreds or thousands of computers
• Deep experience with GPU performance optimization, including writing custom CUDA kernels
• Worked on real-time embedded systems or robotics infrastructure
• Built petabyte-scale storage and database systems
• Experience with high-performance networking and video encoding pipelines

• Rust and low-level performance optimization experience
• Experience taking infrastructure from prototype to production in a small team

We care much more about what you ve built than any specific credential. We re a small, fast-moving team working together in person in San Francisco. If you re excited about architecting novel systems at unprecedented scale, we d love to talk.