SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.
We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders.
At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.
The Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ is looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to help functionalize AQtive Guard, our groundbreaking solution for modern non-human identity and cryptography management already launching globally with major organizations like top-tier financial institutions and government agencies.
We’re looking for a DevOps & Infrastructure engineer to help deliver the next generation of cybersecurity systems. A successful candidate will be comfortable designing and maintaining both on-premise and cloud infrastructure, including local development environments and full CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge of information security best practices will be considered a plus. The candidate will be working closely with a diverse team consisting of cryptographers, mathematicians, ML experts, and physicists, where they will be collaborating together in delivering novel solutions.
What You’ll Do- Work with teams of developers and cryptographers to integrate their research advancements into new products
- Develop and maintain tooling for interacting with the various deployments, set up local development environment, and maintain a complex code base
- Work across on-premise, cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures to deliver fully functional products
- Design scalable and fault-tolerant architecture for cloud deployments
- Ensure high-quality deliverables by maintaining CI/CD pipelines and concise documentation
- Contribute to delivering AQtive Guard for FedRAMP compliance
- US Citizenship and/or security clearance is required due to USG contract requirements
- Strong experience using, building, and maintaining infrastructure in AWS
- Strong experience managing and orchestrating workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience defining infrastructure and processes as code through Terraform, and managing CI systems
- Strong experience with a few scripting languages
- Expertise building large-scale distributed systems
- Ability to containerize and automate deployments and tests using CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to work in a small team/rapid prototyping environment and deal with uncertainty and fluidity
- Understanding of standard IT security best practices
- Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP).
- Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Puppet
- Knowledge of security-related concepts and technologies
- Familiarity with Bazel
- Familiarity with streaming frameworks, especially Kafka and Kstreams
The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $183k to $256k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses and equity.
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SandboxAQ is harnessing the exponential power of AI + Quantum (AQ) technology. The inspiration for SandboxAQ and some of the team originated at Alphabet Inc., becoming an independent entity in 2022. Our mission is to develop commercial products for financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, public sector, and other computationally-intensive industries.
Our team’s unique approach enables cross-pollination across a diverse range of fields, from physics, computer science, neuroscience, mathematics, cryptography, natural sciences, and more!
Our success comes from coalescing diverse talent to create an environment where experimental thinking and collaboration yield breakthrough physics + AI solutions. Join a culture where thought leadership, diverse talent, employee engagement, and technological impact will create the next tech uproar.
We are deeply committed to education as a means to advance quantum solutions and computing initiatives. We invest in future talent through internship programs, research papers, developer tools, textbooks, educational talks/events, and partnerships with universities/talent hubs to attract multi-disciplinary talent. Our hope is to inspire people from all walks of life to be prepared for the quantum era and encourage a path in STEM
