Infrastructure Engineer

Persons in these roles are expected to work from our offices in Seattle. On-site requirements vary based on position and team. If you have questions about on-site work arrangements for this role, please ask your recruiter.
Our base salary range is $100,080 - $150,120, and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

Who You Are:

Are you a strong coder who loves automating systems so you only need to do anything just once? Are you motivated by the idea of working for a non-profit that's working on AI for the common good? If so, our infrastructure team is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer who thrives both independently and as part of a collaborative team. In this role, you'll work closely with our IT help desk team to identify opportunities for automation to keep our company running smoothly.

If you enjoy taking initiative, learning on the fly, and making a real impact, we want you on our team.

Who We Are:

At Ai2, you'll be joining a team of top AI researchers and talented engineers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We have projects spanning natural language processing, robotics, artificial assistants, and fully open foundational models.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be a key part of our IT team, with a unique opportunity to build core infrastructure that supports all of our groundbreaking initiatives. If you join our team, you will help us invest in automated systems so we can continue to grow our impact while maintaining consistency across the company.

We have a beautiful new office right across from Lake Union in Seattle; catered lunches five times a week; great pay and benefits; smart, friendly, and helpful coworkers; and even a couple of kayaks and paddleboards you can take out on sunny days.

Your Next Challenge:

The Infrastructure engineer will fill a critical role on the IT team, identifying and building pipelines that keep the whole company running smoothly.

The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

Integrating software subscriptions with Okta for seamless user management

• Creating terraform configurations to for consistent management of GCP and AWS
• Building and deploying software that monitors for security vulnerabilities
• Investing in infrastructure to aggregate costs across all our services into a consistent format
• Deploying automation to audit user access across all of our software subscriptions
• Building and maintaining an automated pipeline for managing people, their accounts, and permissions

Troubleshooting, documenting, and maintaining our internal systems

• Developing incident response automation, including auto-remediation workflows for common alerts
• Implementing backup and disaster recovery automation across critical systems and data stores

What You'll Need:

• Excellent communication, customer service, and problem-solving skills
• 5+ years of experience in IT or software development, with at least 3 years of experience focusing primarily on automation.
• Strong coding ability in a language such as Python
• Familiarity with using Git Hub to organize code, and Git Hub Actions for automation.
• Experience with specific IT automation tools, such as Terraform, Kandji/Iru, and Okta
• Experience administering and supporting major cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud
• Demonstrated knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Proven ability to collaborate with non-technical departments to translate business requirements into automated solutions
• Strong documentation experience with a focus on clear runbooks and end-user guides
• Familiarity with SAML and SCIM for identity and access management

Bonus If You Have:

• A background in cybersecurity
• Hands on experience supporting security and compliance audits

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will…