AI先行部署工程师
AI Forward Deployed Engineer
**关于 Positron AI**
Positron AI 正在打造下一代 AI 推理加速器，从零开始设计，专为低延迟、高吞吐量的大语言模型推理而优化。我们的第一代 ASIC 芯片 Asimov 是面向前沿 AI 工作负载的尖端加速器，后续版本已经启动开发。
### **职位概述**
加速器平台软件（APS）团队负责最接近硬件的软件：主机端平台层、设备端运行时和固件、基于 Linux 的设备操作系统、用于在芯片前构建软件的仿真和模拟环境、性能和调试工具，以及产品安全。任何与加速器相关的部分都会经过我们。我们使用 AI 原生的工作流程，其中代理编码工具、共享技能库和自动化是团队交付的核心。
这个职位位于总监的团队中，负责将这种优势落实到每个子团队。大多数公司会为此任务配备一个完整的开发系统团队。我们只招聘一个人，却赋予其全部职责。你将成为那个让 AI 辅助开发真正发挥作用的工程师，在一个代码与寄存器对话的环境中，错误的答案意味着设备挂起，而不是一段糟糕的文字。你将嵌入每个子团队，发现他们每周的时间消耗，并构建代理工作流来节省时间，然后通过评估而非热情来证明这些提升。你直接向 APS 总监汇报，你的路线图由你观察到的痛点来定义。
### **主要职责**
**前进部署和工作流构建**
- 与 APS 的各个子团队（固件、运行时、性能和仿真）紧密合作，将代理工作流融入他们的实际工作中，包括编码、调试、问题分类、测试生成和保持文档的真实性。
- 直接与高级工程师一起完成他们的实际工作，通过让他们的周报明显改善来获得采用。
**工具和共享基础设施**
- 负责共享技能库和内部代理工具，将团队辛苦获得的知识转化为可重复使用的、经过评估的自动化工具。
- 将代理工具集成到 CI 和日常工程界面中，包括代码审查、日志和追踪问题分类，以及芯片调试支持。
**质量和评估**
- 构建并维护评估体系，使工作流质量得到衡量而非猜测，并像其他生产系统一样对自动化进行回归测试。
**标准和文化**
- 设定标准和文化规范，确保团队遵循最佳实践并持续改进。
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**About Positron AI**
Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators designed from the ground up for low-latency, high-throughput large language model inference. Our first-generation ASIC, Asimov, is a cutting-edge accelerator targeting frontier AI workloads, with additional generations already underway.
### **Role Overview**
The Accelerator Platform Software (APS) team owns the software closest to the metal: the host-side platform layer, the device-side runtime and firmware, the Linux-based device OS, the simulation and emulation environments we use to build software ahead of silicon, performance and debug tooling, and product security. If it touches the accelerator, it goes through us. We build with AI-native workflows, where agentic coding tools, a shared skills repository, and automation are core to how the team ships.
This role sits on the Director's staff and owns making that leverage real across every sub-team. Most companies would staff an entire developer-systems team for this mission. We are hiring one person and giving them the whole thing. You will be the engineer who makes AI-assisted development actually work in a shop where the code talks to registers and a wrong answer means a hung device, not a bad paragraph. You will embed with each sub-team, find where their week goes, and build agentic workflows that give it back, then prove the gains with evaluations rather than enthusiasm. You report directly to the Director of APS, and your roadmap is yours to define from the friction you observe.
### **Key Responsibilities**
**Forward deployment and workflow building**
- Embed with APS sub-teams across firmware, runtime, performance, and simulation, and build agentic workflows into how they actually work, including coding, debugging, triage, test generation, and keeping documentation honest.
- Pair directly with senior engineers on their real work, earning adoption by making their week measurably better.
**Tooling and shared infrastructure**
- Own the shared skills repository and internal agent tooling that turn hard-won team knowledge into reusable, evaluated automation.
- Wire agents into CI and everyday engineering surfaces, including code review, log and trace triage, and silicon-debug assistance.
**Quality and evaluation**
- Build and maintain evaluations so workflow quality is measured rather than guessed, and regression-test the automation like any other production system.
**Standards and culture**
- Set the standard for what good AI-assisted engineering looks like where correctness is non-negotiable, and champion that AI-native culture across the team.
- Identify where AI leverage genuinely pays off and where it does not, and say so plainly.
### **Required Qualifications**
- A strong software engineering background, with systems or infrastructure experience strongly preferred; this is an engineering role, not a prompt-writing role.
- Hands-on, expert experience using agentic development tools such as OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, integrating LLM APIs, and building evaluations.
- A shipped track record of internal tooling or developer-productivity work that engineers actually adopted.
- The credibility and patience to win over skeptical senior systems engineers with results rather than demos.
- Self-directed working style, comfortable defining your own roadmap from observed friction without a team around you.
- Excellent written communication skills, since we run on written plans, design docs, and async updates.
### **Preferred Qualifications**
- A low-level or hardware-adjacent background, enough to be credible pairing on a kernel driver or a trace-analysis session.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, developer platforms, or build and release engineering.
- Prior forward-deployed, solutions-engineering, or platform-team experience.
#### **Leveling & Scope**
While this role is currently posted at a specific level, we are a growth-oriented organization and are open to hiring at a more senior level for the right candidate. Please note that this job description serves as a focused but generalized overview of the role; specific responsibilities and impact expectations will be tailored to the experience and seniority of the final hire.
### **Why Join Us?**
- You will own a mission most companies spread across an entire team, with a roadmap you define and a direct line to the Director of APS.
- You will shape what AI-native engineering looks like at a company building production AI inference hardware, where your tooling directly accelerates the software that turns silicon into a product.
### **Compensation & Benefits**
The base salary range for this role is $325,000 – $400,000.
Please note that the figures provided represent the base salary range only and do not include other elements of our total compensation package, equity, or comprehensive benefits.
At Positron AI, we value the unique expertise each candidate brings. While the range above reflects our typical expectation for the position, we reserve the flexibility to exceed this range for candidates whose specialized skills, significant experience, or unique qualifications fall outside the standard scope of the role. Final offers are determined based on a variety of factors, including internal equity, and individual impact.
### **Benefits & Perks**
We want you to do your best work and feel confident that you and your family are taken care of. That means comprehensive coverage, real time to rest, and support for your future.
**Health and wellness**
- Fully company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Company-paid life and disability coverage, with voluntary options to add more
- Supplemental hospital, critical illness, and accident coverage available
**Time off and flexibility**
- Unlimited paid time off, and we encourage everyone to truly unplug and recharge
- 13 paid company holidays
- Remote-first culture with a company-provided computer and home office setup
**Compensation and future**
- Competitive salary and equity
- 401(k) with company matching, eligible from day one
### **Visa Support**
This position is open to candidates currently authorized to work in the U.S. We cannot provide new visa sponsorship for this role but are open to facilitating H-1B visa transfers for eligible candidates.
**Equal Opportunity Employer.** If you're excited about the role but don't meet every bullet, we'd still love to hear from you.