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CIQ OVERVIEW
CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.
CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.
We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.
POSITION SUMMARY
CIQ is seeking a highly experienced Senior or Principal AI Engineer to own and drive AI/ML innovation across our product portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of AI engineering and systems performance - the right candidate brings deep expertise in model inference optimization, training workflows, and production AI deployment, combined with a strong instinct for performance at the systems level.
In this role, you will be the AI engineering standard-bearer at CIQ. You will design and build turnkey AI workload examples - both internal reference pipelines and customer-facing solutions - ensuring that CIQ’s AI story is always compelling, practical, and demonstrably best-in-class. You will integrate deeply with Fuzzball, CIQ’s cloud-native computing platform, running AI workloads end-to-end through it and helping customers do the same.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
This role is leveled as Senior or Principal based on qualifications and demonstrated capabilities.
AI Inference Optimization
AI Training Workflows
Turn-Key AI Examples & Reference Workloads
AI Engineering & Tooling
Fuzzball Integration
Cross-Functional Collaboration
NEEDED TO SUCCEED
Successful candidates will have:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
BENEFITS
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible paid time off.
Employee stock options.
Remote work; no travel required for most positions.
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CIQ builds the enterprise infrastructure that powers the world's most demanding workloads. From the operating system layer through AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, and cloud-native orchestration, CIQ delivers the speed, security, scalability, and sovereignty that major enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions depend on.
CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and the developer of the RLC Pro family of Enterprise Linux distributions, Fuzzball workload orchestration, Warewulf Pro cluster provisioning, and Ascender Pro automation. Our customers include some of the largest and most technically sophisticated organizations in the world, working across HPC, AI/ML, defense, and regulated industries.
We are a company of builders, operators, and open source practitioners. If you want to do work that matters, at a company that is genuinely changing how enterprise infrastructure gets built and run, we want to talk.
CIQ is seeking a highly experienced Senior or Principal Performance Engineer to own and drive system-level and application-level performance across our product portfolio. This is an AI-first role, both in methodology and focus area, and the right candidate will bring deep expertise in operating system internals, kernel and userspace performance, and the performance demands of modern AI workloads, HPC environments, general-purpose computing, and production service workloads.
In this role, you will be the standard-bearer for performance at CIQ. Our performance-focused solutions must always be the fastest in the industry, and you will be responsible for ensuring that remains true. You will be intimately involved with Fuzzball, CIQ's cloud-native computing platform, learning its architecture end-to-end and integrating workloads - both user-facing and CI/testing pipelines - directly through it.
Position Summary
This role is leveled as Senior or Principal based on qualifications and demonstrated capabilities.
Benchmarking & Profiling
Regression Detection & Resolution
Proactive Performance Engineering
AI-First Approach
Fuzzball Integration
Cross-Functional Collaboration
NEEDED TO SUCCEED
Successful candidates will have:
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
BENEFITS
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Flexible paid time off.
Employee stock options.
Remote work; no travel required for most positions.
Ready to apply?
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