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title: 'Tech Lead - Full Stack at Clockwork.io'
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# Tech Lead - Full Stack at Clockwork.io

- **Company:** Clockwork.io
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/5687690004

## Job description

## About Clockwork Systems

Clockwork.io – Software Driven Fabrics to increase GPU cluster utilization

Clockwork Systems was founded by Stanford researchers and veteran systems engineers who share a vision for redefining the foundations of distributed computing. As AI workloads grow increasingly complex, traditional infrastructure struggles to meet the demands of performance, reliability, and precise coordination. Clockwork is pioneering a software-driven approach to AI fabrics by delivering cross-stack observability to catch and quickly resolve problems, workload fault tolerance to keep jobs running through failures, and performance acceleration that dynamically routes and paces traffic to avoid congestion.

To learn more, visit[www.clockwork.io](https://www.clockwork.io).

## About the Role

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Tech Lead - Frontend / Full Stack to join our growing engineering team. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader with a strong interest in graphics, data visualization, and user experience, who can guide engineering direction while actively contributing across the technology stack.

You will lead the design and development of rich, interactive visual interfaces powered by scalable, high-performance backend systems. You’ll play a key role in shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, driving execution, and turning complex infrastructure and network data into clear, intuitive visual experiences for customers and internal teams.

## What You Will Do

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for frontend and full-stack initiatives.
- Lead a team of engineers in a fast-paced environment that values innovation, diversity of talent, and technical excellence.
- Collaborate closely with Clockwork engineering teams to design, prototype, and deliver end-to-end web applications and interactive visualizations.
- Build modern front-end interfaces and scalable backend services with strong focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Drive engineering best practices including code quality, testing, observability, and system scalability.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical coaching, and career development.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize roadmap items and deliver high-impact solutions.
- Continuously improve platform performance, usability, and developer productivity by adopting modern tools and technologies.

## What We’re Looking For

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong full-stack development experience with technologies such as TypeScript, HTML, Go, Python, or similar languages.
- Proven experience leading frontend architecture using modern frameworks such as Vue, React, or similar.
- Strong experience building custom data visualizations and interactive user interfaces using D3.js, SVG, or related tools.
- Deep understanding of scalable system design, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Excellent debugging, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align teams and drive execution.
- Experience with high-performance computing (HPC), cloud infrastructure, and container technologies such as Kubernetes or Azure is a plus.

Enjoy

- Challenging and meaningful projects.
- A friendly, collaborative, and inclusive workplace culture.
- Competitive compensation.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Catered lunch.

Compensation for this position will vary based on the skills and experience you bring, as well as internal equity considerations. For candidates hired at the posted level, the expected base salary range is $180,000 - $260,000. The offered compensation package may also include stock options or other equity awards, subject to Clockwork’s equity program and applicable approvals

In addition to cash compensation, this role is eligible to participate in the company’s equity program, which may include stock options granted in accordance with the company’s equity plan and subject to approval and applicable vesting schedules. Clockwork Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building world-class teams by welcoming bright, passionate individuals from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We believe diversity drives innovation, and we grow stronger together.

## About Clockwork.io

## Company Overview

- **One-liner**: Clockwork builds software-driven AI fabrics that optimize GPU clusters for fault tolerance, deterministic performance, and higher utilization, working across any network (InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet) and any GPU vendor.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018 (originally founded as Tick Tock Networks, renamed Clockwork Systems in 2021)
- **Founders**: Balaji Prabhakar, Yilong Geng, Deepak Merugu, Suresh Vasudevan (CEO), Mendel Rosenblum (Chief Scientist)

## Core Business

- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / data center networking / GPU cluster optimization
- **Target customers**: B2B, targeting hyperscalers, cloud providers, enterprises, and AI labs running large-scale distributed training and inference workloads
- **Mission/purpose**: To eliminate communication bottlenecks in AI fabrics, making AI workloads resilient, performant, and efficient — all through software alone.

## Products & Services

- **Clockwork FleetIQ**: A software-driven AI fabric that improves GPU cluster utilization and job completion times by 1.1–1.5x, reduces disruptive failures by over 90%, and provides observability, fault tolerance, and dynamic traffic control. Works across any network and GPU vendor.
- **Clockwork TorchPass**: A fault-tolerance framework for AI training that, according to a SemiAnalysis report, is the only approach that does not degrade training performance, recovering millions in wasted compute annually.
- **Live GPU Migration**: Introduced in June 2026, enables AI workloads to continue running through failures by migrating GPU state live, minimizing downtime.
- **Global Clock Sync**: Software-based near-nanosecond clock synchronization across distributed components, enabling precise telemetry and one-way delay measurement.
- **Distributed State Transfer**: Captures and transfers distributed network/communication state (model parameters, NCCL communicators, etc.) to support path failover and live GPU migration.
- **Dynamic Traffic Control**: Programmable traffic steering and pacing at the packet level to relieve congestion and bound tail latencies.

## Market Standing

- **Total Funding**: $41.5M raised (Series B, with $20.5M raised approximately 10 months prior to June 2026)
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors**: Lead Series A investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA). Individual investors include Lip Bu Tan (CEO of Intel), Diane Greene (former CEO of VMware), John Chambers (former CEO/Executive Chairman of Cisco), John Hennessy (former President of Stanford, Chairman of Alphabet), Ram Shriram (Trustee of Stanford and Alphabet), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures, co-founder of Yahoo!).
- **Growth Signals**: Launched "You Only Compute Once" (YOCO) contractual commitment to end GPU waste; TorchPass validated by SemiAnalysis; released Live GPU Migration capability; active hiring with 9 open roles across engineering, sales, and solutions engineering; CEO interview in June 2026.

## Competitive Advantages

- **Vendor-neutral software-only approach**: Operates across any network fabric (InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet) and any GPU vendor — no proprietary hardware required.
- **Foundational research from Stanford**: The Huygens clock synchronization system, developed by co-founder Yilong Geng during his PhD, provides near-nanosecond precision that underpins the entire platform.
- **Unique fault-tolerance without performance loss**: TorchPass is claimed to be the only fault-tolerance framework that does not cost training performance, according to third-party analysis.
- **Live GPU migration**: Allows workloads to survive failures by moving GPU state in real time, a capability not commonly available in competing solutions.
- **Strong advisory network**: Backed by luminaries like Diane Greene, John Chambers, and John Hennessy, providing deep industry credibility.

## Strategic Focus

- **Scale product adoption**: Expanding from early hyperscaler and enterprise deployments to broader market, with a focus on large-scale AI clusters.
- **Deepen observability and automation**: Continuing to enhance the observe-decide-act control loop for autonomic collective communications.
- **Expand global sales and partnerships**: Hiring senior account executives in Europe and solutions engineers in New York, indicating geographic expansion.
- **Build finance and marketing infrastructure**: Recent hires include VP of Finance Alison Qu and VP of Growth Marketing Anita Pandey, signaling preparation for further growth.

## Why Work Here

- **High-impact problem**: Solving fundamental communication bottlenecks in AI infrastructure, directly affecting GPU utilization and job completion times for the largest AI workloads.
- **Strong leadership**: CEO Suresh Vasudevan previously led Nimble Storage from startup to IPO and acquisition by HPE, and was CEO of Sysdig. Co-founders include Stanford professors and VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum.
- **Culture**: Emphasizes that "Behind every packet, there’s a person." Perks include free lunch, free gym, TGIFs, and comprehensive benefits.
- **Work policy**: Mix of onsite (Palo Alto, San Francisco) and remote (e.g., New York) roles, with most engineering roles onsite.
- **Recent funding and growth**: Series B stage with $41.5M raised and active hiring indicates strong runway and momentum.

## Sources

1. [clockwork.io/about-us](https://clockwork.io/about-us/)
2. [clockwork.io](https://clockwork.io/)
3. [clockwork.io/careers](https://clockwork.io/careers/)
4. [greenhouse.io - job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clockworksystems/jobs/5870086004)
5. [cbinsights.com - Clockwork profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/clockwork-3)

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