Staff Engineer: Cloud Platform, CommonAI Compute

£80-120k

AWS

GCP

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Cambridge

2-4 days a week in office (Cambridge station area)

Cloud agnostic compute for AI made easy

Be an early applicant

Cloud agnostic compute for AI made easy

1-20 employees

FintechB2BCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

£80-120k

AWS

GCP

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Cambridge

2-4 days a week in office (Cambridge station area)

1-20 employees

FintechB2BCloud Computing

Company mission

A cloud-agnostic platform that gives simple, cost-effective access to AI accelerators

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Strong experience with cloud infrastructure
Experience building platforms across different cloud platforms
Strong background in security and resilience engineering
Familiarity with modern system monitoring tools and best practices
Strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools and frameworks
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Practical, hands on and able to work across layers of the stack when needed
Able to troubleshoot problems in production and work with key customers
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

What the job involves

We are looking for platform engineers who strive to build secure, scalable systems that are a joy to use. In this role you will be responsible for the architecture of our cloud marketplace that lets AI researchers burst their workloads out to any cloud. You’ll work deeply with small and large cloud vendors and contribute to our platform and user experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement cloud infrastructure solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring that our platform is scalable, secure and resilient.
Work with existing open-source products to build our platform, modifying code where necessary
Define infrastructure as code to build, deploy and troubleshoot our multi-cloud platform
Work within secure frameworks, following security best practices

Application process

45 minutes introductory call with Dr Rosemary Francis, our CTO
2 hour technical deep dive
During the hiring process we may ask you technical questions about any technologies or experience that you list on your CV

Our take

Right now, many companies (especially smaller ones) are struggling to keep up with how fast AI is moving. The tech is changing so quickly that it's hard to know where to start, and even harder to build something meaningful without serious resources. This means that many great ideas and talented people are being left behind.

CommonAI Compute is stepping in to change that. It's a new kind of company, built around the idea that sharing knowledge and tools openly can help more businesses succeed with AI. It's still very early days for CommonAI Compute, but its focus on open source and community-driven development could be a major step forward, not just for how startups evolve, but for the future of innovation itself.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Company HQ

Cambridge, UK

Leadership

Dr Rosemary Francis Freng

(CTO)

Alongside CommonAI Compute, they are a Fellow at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Previously, they were the Chief Scientist of HPC and Cloud at Altair and Founder CEO of Ellexus.

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