General Interest - Experience w/ AI Infrastructure at Andromeda Cluster (Global / San Francisco, CA)

Andromeda Cluster· Global / San Francisco, CA·1d ago

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Work type

Remote

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

If you have firsthand experience working in AI infrastructure but don't see a role currently posted that you are qualified for, feel free to submit your resume here. If there is a future opportunity that we think aligns with your background, we will reach out.

Why work at Andromeda Cluster

Culture & environment: Small, high-impact team (14 people) working on one of the most critical bottlenecks in AI. Flat structure with direct access to leadership.
Remote/hybrid policy: Global remote with a San Francisco office. Many roles listed as "Global Remote / San Francisco, CA".
Engineering culture: Deep technical challenges – GPU orchestration, distributed systems, observability, kernel-level performance tuning. Tech stack includes Kubernetes, Slurm, PyTorch, CUDA, Weka, Prometheus, Grafana, and more.
Roles available: Compute Trader, Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, Head of Partnerships, Solutions Engineer, Strategic Compute Finance Lead, and more – all focused on AI infrastructure.

About Andromeda Cluster

Company Overview

One-liner: Andromeda is building the liquidity layer for global AI compute, connecting AI teams with high-performance GPU capacity through a trusted marketplace that standardizes and matches supply with demand.
Entity Type: Private (Funding not disclosed)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: 2023 (inferred from public launch in March 2026 after three years of operation)
Founders: Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross

Core Business

Primary industry: AI infrastructure and compute marketplace
Target customers: B2B – AI labs, data centers, cloud providers, and any organization building large-scale AI workloads
Mission/purpose: To make high-performance compute available to every team building at the frontier, so breakthroughs are driven by ideas, not hardware access.

Products & Services

[Andromeda Marketplace (Buy Side)]: A single platform where AI teams can define their workload (GPU type, quantity, region, timeline) and access real-time pricing across 100+ providers. The platform benchmarks, prices, routes, and deploys compute – reserved, on-demand, or spot – with standardized SLAs, contracts, and full observability.
[Andromeda Marketplace (Sell Side)]: Enables compute providers (telcos, crypto data centers, MSPs, sovereign clouds) to onboard their infrastructure, get it certified against enterprise-grade benchmarks, receive qualified demand, and start earning revenue with standardised terms and one invoice.
Managed Clusters: Began as a single multi-thousand GPU cluster for early-stage startups; now operates a constellation of clusters across many providers, supporting both training and inference workloads.

Market Standing

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly available
Key metric: 1 billion+ GPU-hours of compute managed; over 1000 transactions completed; 100+ compute providers on the platform
Notable Investors/Partners: Founders are well-known tech figures (Nat Friedman, former GitHub CEO; Daniel Gross, investor/entrepreneur). Specific investors not disclosed. Works with leading AI labs, data centers, and cloud providers.
Growth Signals: Public launch in March 2026; 14 employees with +15.8% monthly headcount growth; 10 active job postings; +11.1% monthly job posting trend; global remote hiring with San Francisco office.

Competitive Advantages

Standardized certification: Every cluster on the network must meet uniform benchmarks for GPU, CPU, storage, network fabric, throughput, and security – removing trust barriers.
Matching engine: Prices, routes, and deploys the right infrastructure to the right workload automatically, with options for reserved, on-demand, and spot.
Full-stack market infrastructure: Sourcing, certification, contracting, matching, operations, and observability – all under one relationship.
Founder credibility: Built by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, giving the platform instant legitimacy and access to early AI labs.

Strategic Focus

Build the liquidity layer for global AI compute: expand the network of providers and buyers, deepen the orchestration layer, and enable compute to flow as freely as other commodities.
Grow the team across engineering, sales, partnerships, and operations – with a strong emphasis on AI infrastructure roles.

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