[Hiring] Expert: Interactive Coding, Site Reliability Engineering @Patronus AI, Inc.

Role Description

You'll work live with our research team on production-style reliability scenarios in a sandboxed stack: Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana, a log system, Helm and Terraform, and CI/CD. You solve the scenario the way you would on call, explain your reasoning as you go, tell us where the scenario doesn't match real operations, and help define what a correct resolution looks like.

• Each session starts from a scenario we provide.
• You investigate it on a shared screen, fix or mitigate it, and then write a short note on how you approached it.
• Your work becomes evaluation and training data for frontier models.
• You don't need an AI background.
• You do need to be the kind of engineer who reads the dashboard before touching the config, and who can say out loud why a tempting fix is the wrong one.

Qualifications

• 3+ years running production systems in at least one of the areas above, including time on an on-call rotation within the last two years.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana (or Datadog or New Relic), a log stack such as Loki, ELK or Splunk, infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Helm, and a CI/CD system.
• Comfortable in Python, Go or Bash and at reading unfamiliar codebases.
• Able to explain your reasoning out loud while you work, in clear professional English.
• Reliable availability for scheduled live sessions and the habit of showing the evidence behind every conclusion.

Requirements

• Experience writing runbooks, post-mortems, SLO definitions or incident training material (nice to have).
• Familiarity with how AI coding agents fail on operations work (nice to have).

Benefits

• Independent contractor, fully remote.
• Live screen-share sessions with our researchers plus short asynchronous write-ups.
• Pay: $150 per hour. The trial session is paid.
• Commitment: About 10 hours per week, 1 to 3 months to start, with extension for strong performers.
• Start: Rolling.
• Location: Remote, any country, with a few hours of overlap with US or EU working hours.

Company Description

Patronus AI is a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to simulate all of the world’s intelligence.

• We are the team behind some of the earliest and most influential research in AI evaluation.
• Our customers include foundation model labs and Fortune 500 enterprises like Adobe.
• We are backed by top-tier investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Stanford University, Noam Brown, Gokul Rajaram, and more.