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# Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure at Mirendil

- **Company:** Mirendil
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mirendil/9c23413b-a0be-4b65-a2cf-7db9e2bae8d3

## Job description

Mirendil Mirendil is a tech-first company focused on solving core bottlenecks that unlock step-change acceleration across science and technology. Our first goal is to democratize frontier AI R&D across scientific disciplines. We are building a frontier AI research company and training our own models end-to-end.

## The Role

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own the compute and cloud foundation that frontier AI research runs on. The systems you build determine how fast we can train models, how reliably experiments run, and how efficiently we scale. Some example areas you might work on:

- Sandboxing and secure execution - design isolated environments where agents and untrusted code can run, use tools, and reach external services
- Kubernetes and multi-cluster compute - operate CPU and GPU clusters as one platform with scheduling, autoscaling, and multi-tenant isolation
- Training and inference infrastructure - understand the resource and scheduling demands of research, training, and inference workloads and build the platform capabilities those workloads need
- Infrastructure for long-running agents - build the state management system to handle checkpointing, recovery, and resumption across failures
- Networking - build the networking layer across clouds, clusters, and hosts: routing, peering, load balancing, and network isolation

If you're excited about building the infrastructure backbone of a frontier AI research lab - where your systems directly determine research velocity - we'd love to hear from you.

We offer a base salary of $300,000–$400,000 and a meaningful equity grant, depending on experience and background, along with competitive benefits.

## About Mirendil

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mirendil is building an AI system that automates AI research and development, with the goal of creating a self-improving loop that accelerates scientific discovery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $200M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: Early 2026
- **Founders**: Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / AI Research & Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – initially AI researchers and engineers, but eventually scientists and domain experts (e.g., biology labs, drug discovery teams) who need frontier AI capabilities without building a full AI lab.
- **Mission**: “Democratizing frontier AI R&D to accelerate science and technology.” The company believes self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to solving humanity’s pressing problems.

## Products & Services
- **Mirendil Platform**: A proprietary AI R&D system that trains frontier models specialized in AI research tasks (e.g., experimental design, hyperparameter search, model evaluation, code writing, debugging). The platform is designed to autonomously loop over research and engineering problems, controlling its own GPUs and improving over time with minimal human input. **Status**: Not yet shipped; under development.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1 billion (as of June 2026 seed round)
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: $200 million raised in seed round – one of the largest AI seed rounds ever.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (co-lead), Kleiner Perkins (co-lead), NVIDIA (participant).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Raised $200M at $1B valuation just months after founding.
  - Founding team of 20+ researchers and engineers recruited from Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI.
  - Founders Behnam Neyshabur (co-inventor of SAM optimizer, ex-Google, ex-Anthropic) and Harsh Mehta (ex-Google, ex-Anthropic, initiated automated AI R&D efforts) have deep frontier AI experience.
  - Targeted at compressing research cycles from months to days.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Self-Accelerating Loop**: The product is not just a model but a system that improves itself – “the loop is the product.” This creates a compounding advantage if it works.
- **Singular Focus**: The entire company is rebuilt from scratch around AI doing AI research, unlike traditional labs that use AI as a tool.
- **Top-tier Talent Density**: With only ~20 people, the team includes some of the most accomplished young researchers from the leading AI labs.
- **Strategic Investors**: Backing from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA provides credibility, capital, and potential infrastructure access.

## Strategic Focus
- **Immediate goal**: Build the system that can autonomously perform AI R&D, making frontier research accessible to non-AI experts.
- **Long-term vision**: Democratize frontier AI R&D so that any lab (drug discovery, chemistry, biology, robotics) can leverage it without becoming a frontier AI lab themselves.
- **Current priorities**: Train models exceptional at AI research; build infrastructure for automated experimentation, evaluation, and iteration; keep the team small and high-compound.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: “Small team, singular focus. We hire to compound, not to grow.” The team of ~20 operates with high autonomy and ownership.
- **Cutting-edge work**: Opportunity to work on one of the most ambitious AI projects – automating the very process of AI research.
- **Team composition**: Colleagues from Anthropic, xAI, DeepMind, OpenAI; founders known for foundational contributions (SAM optimizer, Blueshift/Mirerva).
- **Work environment**: Based in San Francisco; likely in-office given the intensity of the work (remote/hybrid policy not publicly detailed).
- **Notable perks**: Direct exposure to frontier model training and infrastructure; chance to shape a company from its earliest stage.

## Sources
1. [mirendil.com](https://mirendil.com/)
2. [mirendil.com/careers.html](https://mirendil.com/careers.html)
3. [kleinerperkins.com](https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/mirendil-building-the-system-that-builds-systems/)
4. [a16z.news](https://www.a16z.news/p/investing-in-mirendil)
5. [techfundingnews.com](https://techfundingnews.com/ex-anthropic-researchers-raise-200m-just-weeks-after-quitting-to-build-ai-that-creates-better-ai/)

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