Technical Support Engineer (Inference) - US Weekends
at Together AI · 101-250 employees
Series C · $800M · Jul 2026
- Work model
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- 5d ago
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at Together AI · 101-250 employees
Together AI is an AI neocloud that provides AI-focused cloud infrastructure and tools to support adoption of open-source models.
<h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the role</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As a Technical Support Engineer at a pioneering AI company, you'll be the first line of defense to support customers as they build out training, fine tuning, and inference solutions with Together AI. You'll dive deep into complex technical challenges, providing swift and effective solutions while serving as a product expert. As a part of the Customer Experience organization, you will collaborate closely with product and sales, driving continuous improvement of our offerings. This is an exciting opportunity for a deeply technical professional passionate about AI and customer success to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Required hours</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a fulltime position working US daytime hours. The role will work both weekend days (Saturday and Sunday) as well as two additional weekdays.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a 4-day shift, 10 hours per day, with 2 additional hours of on-call coverage on Saturdays and Sundays.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The role would start as a Monday to Friday role for the first few months to allow for ramping up and learning from teammates. After being considered fully ramped, the role would transition to the 4-day weekend shift.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Engage directly with customers to tackle and resolve complex technical challenges involving our cutting-edge GPU clusters and our inference and fine-tuning services; ensure swift and effective solutions every time.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Act as a customer facing SRE to ensure our customer’s Inference endpoints (running on Kubernetes) remain healthy, stable, and performant</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Become a product expert in all of our Gen AI solutions, serving as the last line of technical defense before issues are escalated to Engineering and Product teams.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Assist with hardware and platform migrations by validating system health and traffic routing. Monitor dashboards to detect anomalies and escalate with data-backed analysis</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Manage customer-facing communications during incidents and degradations; translate deep technical findings (latency regressions, provider issues, network reachability drops) into clear, evidence-backed updates without exposing platform internals</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Contribute infrastructure changes for model deployment, capacity rebalancing, and cluster configuration. You will execute infrastructure changes via pull requests (infra-as-code) for tasks such as endpoint configuration, model bringup/bringdown, and capacity scaling</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Flag engine-level bugs with logs and reproduction steps for engineering</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Collaborate seamlessly across Engineering, Research, and Product teams to address customer concerns; collaborate with senior leaders both internally and externally to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Transform customer insights into action by identifying patterns in support cases and working with Engineering and Go-To-Market teams to drive Together’s roadmap (e.g., future models to support)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Maintain detailed documentation of system configurations, procedures, troubleshooting guides, and FAQs to facilitate knowledge sharing with team and customers.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Be flexible in providing support coverage during holidays, nights and weekends as required by business needs to ensure consistent and reliable service for our customers.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Requirements</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">6+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 1 year in a support role for an AI service</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience as an SRE or DevOps engineer working with Kubernetes</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong te