Positron AI is building next-generation AI inference accelerators designed from the ground up for low-latency, high-throughput large language model inference. Our first-generation ASIC, Asimov, is a cutting-edge accelerator targeting frontier AI workloads, with additional generations already underway.
Positron is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Production Platform and Orchestration within our Upstack Engineering organization. This team owns the software and operating practices that provision, deploy, observe, upgrade, and reliably operate Positron systems in production. You will inherit a technically strong core team and help it grow into a durable organization capable of supporting a fleet that is expanding by several multiples.
This is a technical leadership role with real operational accountability. You will set direction, build the team, create clear ownership, and improve the systems and processes behind fleet orchestration, deployment lifecycle, observability, incident response, release automation, and production reliability. You will work closely with serving and API, model enablement, compiler and runtime, hardware, customer-facing, and data center partners.
The strongest candidate will combine systems depth with organizational judgment, moving comfortably between architecture, delivery, incidents, people development, and cross-functional planning. This description intentionally emphasizes outcomes and ownership over a fixed organizational chart. As the fleet and customer base grow, the function may develop dedicated groups for fleet orchestration and capacity, deployment lifecycle, reliability and observability, data center operations, customer production operations, and operational tooling.
While this role is currently posted at a specific level, we are a growth-oriented organization and are open to hiring at a more senior level for the right candidate. Please note that this job description serves as a focused but generalized overview of the role; specific responsibilities and impact expectations will be tailored to the experience and seniority of the final hire.
In the first six months, you will build trust with the team and partner organizations, clarify ownership, decision rights, and the near-term hiring plan, and baseline fleet health, incident load, deployment reliability, operational toil, and the largest single points of failure. You will establish a practical operating cadence for on-call, incident review, release readiness, and reliability prioritization, and produce an agreed roadmap that balances immediate production needs with platform investments and automation. Between six and twelve months, you will grow the team and create durable ownership for fleet orchestration, deployment lifecycle, observability, and production reliability, while improving automated provisioning, upgrades, rollback, health monitoring, and operational diagnostics. Avoidable incidents and manual intervention will decrease, deployment confidence and customer readiness will increase, and you will be developing engineers and technical leads who can independently own major platform and operational domains. By twelve to eighteen months, you will be operating a resilient production organization with clear specialties, healthy management span, and sustainable coverage, supporting a substantially larger and more diverse fleet without proportional growth in operational effort, and demonstrating measurable improvement in availability, deployment speed, upgrade safety, incident recovery, and operational efficiency.
The base salary range for this role is $200,000 – $300,000.
Please note that the figures provided represent the base salary range only and do not include other elements of our total compensation package, equity, or comprehensive benefits.
At Positron AI, we value the unique expertise each candidate brings. While the range above reflects our typical expectation for the position, we reserve the flexibility to exceed this range for candidates whose specialized skills, significant experience, or unique qualifications fall outside the standard scope of the role. Final offers are determined based on a variety of factors, including internal equity, and individual impact.
We want you to do your best work and feel confident that you and your family are taken care of. That means comprehensive coverage, real time to rest, and support for your future.
This position is open to candidates currently authorized to work in the U.S. We cannot provide new visa sponsorship for this role but are open to facilitating H-1B visa transfers for eligible candidates.
Equal Opportunity Employer. If you're excited about the role but don't meet every bullet, we'd still love to hear from you.
Positron delivers vendor freedom and faster inference for both enterprises and research teams, by allowing them to use hardware and software explicitly designed from the ground up for generative and large language models (LLMs).
Through lower power usage and drastically lower total cost of ownership (TCO), Positron enables you to run popular open source LLMs to serve multiple users at high token rates and long context lengths. Positron is also designing its own ASIC to expand from inference and fine tuning to also support training and other parallel compute workloads.
