Platform Engineer

Founded by Yoshua Bengio, LawZero is a nonprofit organization focused on AI safety. In charge of technology, the IT department oversees Cybersecurity, End User support, and the management of the compute environment used to achieve our mission.

You will own the platform layer that sits between our people and the GPU infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, cloud environments, and the standards that keep them consistent and secure. This is a hands-on role on a small IT team, with a wide surface area and a lot of room to shape how things are built.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and run Kubernetes clusters for research workloads, including autoscaling, network policies, and workload isolation, both on-premise and in the cloud.
• Define, communicate, and enforce best practices for CI/CD pipelines: automated builds, tests, container image creation, and deployments, with security scanning and provenance built into the pipeline rather than bolted on.
• Implement and manage internal services supporting our research and data teams, providing them with a reliable, secure platform. Examples include artifacts registry, Container registries, etc.
• Manage our cloud environments as code (Terraform or equivalent): accounts, networking, identity, secrets, and cost visibility.
• Define and cham