--- title: 'Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure at Asari AI' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-infrastructure-asari-ai-san-francisco-akd9c12h1zff' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-09' --- # Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure at Asari AI - **Company:** Asari AI - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-05-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asari.ai/ad6cb17c-3d6e-4ea9-98d3-0d7942957bfa ## Job description ## BUILD AI TO CO-INVENT THE FUTURE Our mission is to empower people to invent solutions for the world’s hardest problems, working together with scalable and reliable AI agents. For example, our agents can efficiently reason about and verify mission-critical code, including migrating space-grade software from C to Safe Rust https://asari.ai/blog/space-grade-software. Our team has published award-winning AI research and is backed by top-tier investors including Eric Schmidt, Caltech, Jeff Dean, and JP Millon. We move fast, think from first principles, and build with purpose. We believe that great results come when people take ownership, grow together, and share both the challenges and the wins. ## What you'll do Build the supercomputing infrastructure that runs our agents. Our agents tackle long-horizon, high-performance workloads, and you'll design the cloud compute, distributed systems, and sandboxed tooling that keeps them reliable, efficient, and ready to scale. ## What you have - Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, cloud storage, and other key components - Familiarity with distributed systems fundamentals and frameworks like Ray - Expertise on using virtual networks and remote program execution across distributed resources - Sharp judgment on system design tradeoffs for building and operating infrastructure for long-running AI agent workloads - Strong programming (e.g., Python, Go, Rust), analytical thinking, and communication skills ## Nice to have - Ability to work effectively with AI coding agents like Claude Code - Experience building tooling or sandboxed environments for high-performance systems - Open-source contributions or production experience with large-scale ML infrastructure Compensation, benefits, and perks We offer competitive compensation + stock options, full health coverage, and a 401(k) match, plus additional wellness perks, flexible hours, and unlimited PTO. We prioritize growth and connection through daily meals in the office, learning budgets, and regular team socials. ## About Asari AI ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Asari AI builds advanced AI agents that plan, reason, verify, and discover new knowledge, enabling humans to co-invent the future through collaboration with powerful AI. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Stephan Zheng (Founder and CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Information and Internet - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises and research institutions needing advanced AI capabilities for scientific discovery, engineering, and complex problem-solving - **Mission/purpose statement**: "To build AI that helps us co-invent the future" – a world where anyone with imagination can collaborate with AI to invent and design at scale. ## Products & Services - **[EnCompass]**: A framework that rethinks how AI agents explore complex problems by separating work from inference-time search strategies. Presented at NeurIPS 2024 and designed to help developers capture key logic while abstracting away search strategies. (Type: AI agent framework) - **[Core AI Platform]**: A new type of AI agent that learns, reasons, plans, verifies, and discovers new skills and knowledge. Underpins the company's vision of human-AI collaboration for invention. (Type: AI platform/SaaS) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company, early stage) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – Seed round led by Eric Schmidt, with participation from Caltech, Jeff Dean, and JP Millon (announced March 26, 2024). Exact amount not publicly available. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind), Caltech, JP Millon. Advisors include Yisong Yue (Caltech professor) and Swarat Chaudhuri (UT Austin professor). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +40% YoY to 8 employees; monthly website traffic up +126.9% and yearly traffic up +151.5%; active hiring with 5 open positions; company launched EnCompass at NeurIPS 2024. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep ties to top academic AI research** (Caltech, UT Austin, NeurIPS) giving credibility and recruiting pipeline. - **Focus on agents that combine planning, verification, and discovery** – a differentiation from many pure chatbot or retrieval-based AI companies. - **Strong early backing from tech luminaries** (Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean) and institutional support (Caltech). - **Small, high-caliber team** with talent sourced from Caltech, Microsoft, and IBM, enabling rapid iteration and culture of excellence. ## Strategic Focus - Building the AI infrastructure and compute to help people invent complex systems of the future. - Developing agents that can handle multi-step reasoning and search, with emphasis on memory-safe languages (Rust) and scalable distributed infrastructure. - Expanding the team across AI engineering, infrastructure, and business development to scale the platform. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-friendly culture** with in-office options in San Francisco and Montréal. Employees work remotely but have access to two office hubs. - **Founding-stage impact** – join a tight-knit team of ~8 people backed by world-class investors and advisors. - **Cutting-edge AI research** – work on novel agent frameworks published at top venues like NeurIPS. - **Tech stack** includes PyTorch, CUDA, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, and modern ML ops (MLflow, Grafana, Prometheus). - **Active hiring** for roles: Kernel Engineer, Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Business Development Lead – indicating growth and investment in core engineering. ## Sources 1. [asari.ai](https://asari.ai/) 2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/asari-ai) 3. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/asari-ai) 4. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/asari-ai) 5. 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