Software Engineer, Product Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

FieldAI’s Irvine team is where embodied AI meets real robots, real sensors, and real field deployments. Based in the heart of Southern California’s robotics ecosystem, we build risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems that solve the hardest problems in robotics and unlock the full potential of embodied intelligence. If you want your work to ship, get tested on hardware, and improve through real deployments, Irvine is the place. We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-only architectures, combining rigorous engineering with learning systems proven in globally deployed solutions that deliver results today and get better every time our robots run in the field.

🏢 About FieldAI

FieldAI is a company that builds risk-aware, reliable, field-ready AI systems for robotics. Our team is based in Irvine, California, and we focus on solving the hardest problems in robotics by combining rigorous engineering with learning systems. We have a track record of field deployments and strong performance in DARPA challenge segments.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build and operate the internal platform systems that power engineering and production workloads across the company. This role focuses on Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment automation, cloud platform engineering, observability, and production reliability. You’ll work closely with software engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment velocity, and operational scalability across the organization.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure-as-code tooling such as AWS CDK and Terraform
• Build and maintain Kubernetes platforms and supporting infrastructure across cloud and internal environments
• Develop and improve CI/CD systems, deployment workflows, and GitOps tooling using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and operational maturity across distributed systems and data pipelines
• Debug and resolve production issues spanning application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment layers
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer productivity, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency
• Implement monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, and incident response best practices for production systems
• Help define infrastructure standards, deployment patterns, and operational best practices as systems evolve

📌 Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, production engineering, or DevOps-focused software engineering roles
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production systems at scale
• Deep experience with AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and observability services
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems and event-driven architectures
• Strong debugging and incident response skills across infrastructure and application layers
• Experience building CI/CD systems and deployment automation pipelines
• Ability to work cross-functionally and take ownership of systems end-to-end

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as ArgoCD
• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog
• Experience operating Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, or other distributed data systems
• Experience with autoscaling systems such as KEDA
• Experience building internal developer platforms or shared engineering infrastructure

🎁 Benefits

Our salary range is generous and we consider each individual’s background and experience when determining final compensation. Base pay may vary based on role scope, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the Irvine, California market.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We value diverse perspectives and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We evaluate candidates and employees based on merit, qua