Infrastructure Software Engineer (AI Enablement)
Job Description
Own infrastructure that enables agents and ML workflows, with a focus on developer experience and operations.
Responsibilities
- Work across agent infrastructure and orchestration, ML infrastructure, and model benchmarking at scale
- Build and improve full stack web experiences tied to agent and ML workflows
- Drive process optimization to increase productivity through tools and systems
- Address infrastructure needs across container orchestration, sandboxing, distributed filesystems, cloud architecture, and database systems
- Take ownership of developer experience and ops as a primary area
- Expect initial ownership to take less than 50% of engineering time, with ongoing focus driven by personal interest
- Improve productivity for others by shipping developer tooling that supports token-to-human-time tradeoffs
- Support teams with practical integrations and operational improvements, emphasizing throughput and delivery
Requirements
- AI-native engineer: uses AI coding agents daily and has built tooling, workflows, or integrations that improve effectiveness for a whole team
- Strong software engineering: 3+ years writing production code in Python, Go, or TypeScript
- Ability to get productive quickly in an unfamiliar codebase
- Developer tools builder: built internal tools or developer-experience improvements adopted by other engineers
- DevOps fluency: hands-on experience with CI/CD, AWS or GCP, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code
- Not required to be a career SRE, but able to own parts of the pipeline end-to-end
- Teacher and evangelist: encourage adoption through demos, docs, and pairing rather than mandates
Technologies
- Python, Go, TypeScript
- CI/CD
- AWS, GCP
- Docker
- Infrastructure-as-code
Location
- United States (onsite)
Compensation
- Base Salary: USD 170,000 - 250,000 per year
- Performance Bonus
- Great Equity
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k) Plan
- Every lunch and dinner is paid for
- Health: 100% premium covered on Cigna’s platinum health plan ($0 premium, $0 deductible); 50% premium coverage for dependents
- Dental and vision: 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian plans
- Company-sponsored professional development
- Relocation Assistance
- Visa support: sponsor most work visas
How We Work
- Based in the San Francisco office; collaborate closely with science, partnerships, ops, and engineering
- Two key meetings each week, plus ad hoc meetings as needed
- Busy work with a flexible schedule
- No tracking of online time; unlimited PTO
- Focus on shipping high-quality projects well and on time (or early)
Team and Collaboration
- Founders: Alfredo, Kyle, Kenny
- Chief Product Officer: Hannah
- Operations: Jordan, Daniel, Saul, Andy, Charles, Jesse, Camila
- MTS: Zhen, Harmon, Chris, Dillon, Martin, Ramesh, Ian, Evan, John
- Scientists across Latch
Culture
- Radical transparency: you’ll know how the company is doing, what’s working, and what isn’t
- Team mindset: “us against the problem, never each other”
- Opinionated but respectful; bring solutions with problems
- Arrive at a time that works for you; notify the team via Slack if running later
- Meetings kept to a minimum; evaluated on innovation and output rather than hours
- Outside work: company outings most months, team off-sites, latch run club, cycling, boxing, ice skating, and playing soccer together
Application Process
- Round 0: Apply
- Round 1: Technical Interview with Head of Engineering
- Round 2: Take home Technical Assessment
- Round 3: On-site work-trial with Latch Team (2-3 days)
- Offer