Staff Engineer, Distributed Storage and HPC & AI Infrastructure
Together AI · San Francisco
Posted about 3 months ago · $250,000 - $300,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Together AI's roles stay open a median of 82 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 72% of Together AI's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Together AI
- high 61 stale, 0 reposted of 61 open
- Hiring momentum
- 77 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Together AI's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Together AI.
About this role
In this role, you will operate and optimize large-scale storage systems designed for AI workloads, focusing on high-performance parallel filesystems and object stores. Your responsibilities include building caching and data-movement layers, developing Kubernetes-native storage operators, and ensuring efficient data paths for GPU nodes. You will also architect technical strategies for storage systems while integrating cutting-edge technologies and optimizing performance for training and inference workloads.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Together AI as an employer.
What you need
- 8+ years in storage engineering, managing distributed storage at multi-petabyte scale
- Proven track record building, deploying and operating high-performance storage for GPU/HPC clusters, for training and/or inference
- Experience scaling storage for inference: KV-cache offload or disaggregated KV storage, prefix caching, model-weight distribution, or similar latency-critical data paths
- Deep Kubernetes and cloud-native storage experience in production environments
- Strong coding skills in Go and Python with demonstrated ability to build production-grade systems and tooling
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Nice to have
- GPU Direct Storage (GDS), NVMe-oF, storage networking, RDMA implementations
- GPUDirect RDMA and zero-copy data movement (ibverbs, NIXL, UCX), and KV-cache transfer frameworks (e.g. LMCache, Mooncake, Dynamo)
- ML/AI storage patterns (model weights, checkpointing, dataset caching, KV-cache offload and prefix caching)
- Storage benchmarking and profiling tools (fio, iperf3, iostat, blktrace)
- Patents, publications (FAST, OSDI, SOSP, SC, ATC), or significant open-source contributions in storage or systems
What you get
- competitive compensation
- startup equity
- health insurance
- flexibility in terms of remote work
- US base salary range of $250,000 - $330,000 + equity + benefits
Worth weighing
- highly specialized role focused on storage systems for AI workloads
- no mention of specific technologies beyond those listed as must-haves and nice-to-haves
- the role requires extensive experience in a niche area of storage engineering
Summarised from Together AI's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Together AI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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