AI Product Engineer

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Principal Engineer (Product) to build and evolve Nscale’s vertically integrated managed AI services stack.

In this role, you’ll lead critical architecture decisions while staying hands-on in delivery across foundational platform capabilities including APIs, services, workflows, and data/control planes. You’ll work closely with squads across the business, partnering with engineers, product managers, and executives to align interfaces, ownership, and operational readiness.

This is a high-impact opportunity for an experienced engineer who thrives in ambiguity, turns complex problems into clear designs, and raises the bar on quality, security, and operational excellence. Your work will directly shape how Nscale ships reliable, secure, and scalable AI-native products with real enterprise impact.

What you'll be doing

Platform Architecture & Delivery

• Design foundational platform capabilities across APIs, services, workflows, and data/control planes
• Implement reliable, secure systems that support Nscale’s managed AI services stack
• Drive architecture decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across distributed systems
• Translate ambiguous product and platform challenges into crisp technical designs and execution plans

Engineering Quality & Reliability

• Raise the engineering bar through rigorous design reviews and strong testing strategy
• Improve system resilience with robust observability and modern reliability practices
• Lead post-incident learning and continuous improvement across the platform
• Apply strong code quality, performance, and production engineering fundamentals in day-to-day delivery

Security, Governance & Operational Excellence

• Embed security, IAM, privacy, and governance into system design and delivery by default
• Strengthen operational readiness across services and platform components
• Support production excellence through incident response and ongoing system improvement
• Contribute to high-availability service design with attention to reliability and cost optimisation

Cross-Functional Technical Leadership

• Partner with squads across the firm to align on interfaces, ownership, and execution
• Communicate technical direction clearly across engineers, PMs, and executives
• Balance short- and long-term priorities to keep teams moving while building for scale
• Scale team effectiveness through alignment, strong design, and clear technical communication

Platform Leverage & AI-Accelerated Execution

• Improve delivery velocity through platform leverage, automation, and tooling
• Use AI responsibly to accelerate software delivery and scale operations
• Leverage modern cloud-native patterns and systems thinking to evolve large-scale platforms
• Advance the managed AI services stack with practical, high-impact engineering improvements

KPIs

• Scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency of distributed systems
• Delivery velocity through platform leverage, automation, and tooling
• Operational excellence across observability, incident response, and post-incident learning
• Cross-squad alignment on interfaces, ownership, and operational readiness

About You

• 15+ years building and shipping production platforms at scale
• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud-native environments
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes, CI/CD, and reliability patterns
• Proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Rust
• Strong fundamentals in code quality, testing, and performance
• Deep experience in observability, incident response, and continuous improvement
• Strong security fundamentals including IAM, data protection, and governance in production environments
• Experience collaborating effectively across engineers, PMs, and executives
• Ability to leverage AI to build, evolve, and maintain large-scale systems
• Experience with developer platforms, control planes, APIs, SDKs, or CLIs is a plus

What we can offer you

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀
• Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. ✨
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.

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Salary Range

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale

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