Staff Engineer, Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Dexterity, you will design, build, and automate the infrastructure that powers Dexterity's development and production robotics systems. You'll own critical areas of our bare-metal and hybrid cloud infrastructure, including provisioning, compute, networking, Kubernetes, observability, security, and lifecycle management.

🏢 About Dexterity

Dexterity is the enterprise Physical AI company building intelligent robots for complex industrial work. Dexterity's Mech systems combine the Foresight World Model, robotics, and a Physical AI platform to perform demanding logistics workflows - including trailer loading, trailer unloading, and airport baggage handling - at the speed, reliability, and safety levels required for high-volume operations. Dexterity is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

🎯 The Role

You'll work across Infrastructure, Software, Robotics, and other engineering teams to build secure, scalable, highly available systems while eliminating manual operational work through automation. This is a hands-on Staff-level role for an engineer who can set technical direction, solve complex infrastructure problems, and build systems that scale as Dexterity grows.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end automation for provisioning and lifecycle management of bare-metal HPC infrastructure.
• Automate commissioning, OS installation, reprovisioning, and decommissioning using Dexterity's bare-metal provisioning systems.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using technologies such as Terraform, Salt, Python, and Git-based workflows.
• Automate configuration and deployment of Linux/Ubuntu compute nodes, Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, monitoring, logging, and authentication services.
• Develop APIs, scripts, controllers, and automation workflows that eliminate manual steps in server provisioning and configuration.
• Integrate physical infrastructure provisioning with fleet management and other internal infrastructure services.
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning for hybrid HPC and cloud-burst use cases.
• Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices for infrastructure changes, including testing, review, rollout, and rollback.
• Build automated hardware validation, health-checking, and diagnostic workflows.
• Develop observability for provisioning status, failures, configuration drift, capacity, and overall infrastructure health.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable, reliable, and highly available compute and network systems that support business objectives and service-level requirements.
• Help establish and improve infrastructure security, reliability, compliance, and operational practices.
• Help define the long-term architecture and technical direction for Dexterity's compute and infrastructure platforms.
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through production deployment.
• Establish engineering standards and best practices for infrastructure automation, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Partner cross-functionally to research and design the next generation of compute and acceleration infrastructure for Dexterity.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure or systems at scale, with demonstrated technical leadership and ownership.
• Strong Linux/Ubuntu systems administration experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python with solid Bash/shell scripting knowledge.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience with bare-metal infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployment, operations, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, including API-driven provisioning.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including VLANs, DHCP, DNS, routing, bonding, and related networking concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD and Git-driven infrastructure/configuration-management practices.
• Experience developing or integrating systems using REST APIs and automation workflows.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
• Strong understanding of secure, idempotent, and reproducible infrastructure automation, with the ability to rebuild systems from code rather than relying on manual configuration.

⭐ Desirable Experience

No specific desirable experience mentioned.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

No specific visa or eligibility information mentioned.