Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Backend/Data Performance)

Earth Species Project is a non-profit using AI to decode animal communication. They are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build foundational pipelines that support their mission by designing and optimizing scalable systems for data infrastructure and backend performance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and optimize high-performance data pipelines for distributed training and storage (using tools like Arrow, DuckDB, LanceDB, BigQuery, vector databases)
• Focus on low-level optimizations (latency, throughput, reliability, GPU usage)
• Build monitoring and visualization tools for tracking data quality, pipeline performance, and experiments
• Optimize distributed AI workloads for reliability, latency, and efficiency
• Scope and supervise projects so that interns, PhD students, and post-docs can contribute and collaborate effectively
• Support recruiting efforts and help shape the growth of the infrastructure team