Tooling Engineer
Sfcompute
| Company | Sfcompute |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | San Francisco |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 220k–300k |
| Posted | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 31 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.
When people finance GPU clusters, the datacenters housing them, and the infrastructure powering them, they need "offtake" - meaning someone has signed a contract to lease the cluster for a period of time before its even built.
Financing a GPU cluster is inherently risky, since margins are thin and volumes are huge. Lenders don't want to take on the risk that cluster developers can't repay their loan, and cluster developers really don't want to risk not selling their cluster. As a result, risk is offloaded to the customer using fixed-price long-term contracts.
If you don't mitigate this customer risk, there's a bubble. This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions. If you mess up a purchase, it's game over: a minor shift in your revenue growth rate might mean the difference between profit or bankruptcy. But what if companies could exit their contract by selling it back to the market?
Otherwise, as AI scales, compute only becomes available to folks who can effectively take on that risk. A 2-person startup in a San Francisco Victorian can't realistically sign a 5-year take or pay contract on $100m supercomputers. But they may be able to buy the month of liquidity that someone else sold back.
So that's what we make: a liquid market for GPU offtake.
ABOUT THE TOOLING TEAM
We are a small team focused on making SFCompute engineering faster, more observable, and more reliable. Our work spans data infrastructure, developer experience, pre-production environments, and AI tooling. The common thread is not any single domain. It is that we find the problems nobody else owns and turn them into solved problems.
We act as internal field engineers. Our job is to maximize the speed and effectiveness of everyone else at the company. The team is kept deliberately small and independent so it can respond directly to its internal customers without waiting on outside approval. We own a graph of metrics and we are driven by goals, not by a ticket queue.
Everyone here wears many hats. You will work across the stack, collaborate with every part of engineering, and regularly take on problems that do not fit neatly into a job description. If you want a narrow scope and a clear ticket queue, this team is not it. If you want a large, legible impact on a small team building serious infrastructure, read on.
ABOUT SFCOMPUTE
The San Francisco Compute Company runs large-scale GPU clusters (H100s, H200s, B300s) on contracts you can exit. Need 256 H100s for three days? Buy them at market price, cancel what you don't use. We operate the stack from UEFI up, so you are never paying a reseller markup or waiting on a support ticket. Customers include NVIDIA, MIT, Liquid AI, and Roboflow. We are a small team that has managed over $1B of hardware and is building what we think will be the defining infrastructure marketplace for the AI era.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a generalist Tooling Engineer to own the systems that sit underneath every engineer's daily work. You will embed with the people you serve, watch how they actually work, and fix what slows them down. Some weeks that means build pipelines and infrastructure as code. Other weeks it means a staging environment, a per-engineer developer sandbox, an internal data pipeline, or better tooling for AI coding agents. You decide what matters most by talking to your internal customers, not by waiting for a spec.
This is not a "build dashboards and wait for requests" role. The team owns the software development lifecycle, and the gaps in it are yours to close. You will need to scope your own work, ship it, and then stand up in front of the company every two weeks and show what improved.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Embed with engineers across the company, learn their workflows, and find th
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