Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure Engineers at AI companies operate the physical and systems-level infrastructure the business depends on—servers, storage arrays, networking equipment, and the Unix/Linux environments hosted on them. The day-to-day is hands-on: diagnosing hardware and firmware faults, managing warranty replacements through vendors, performing root-cause analysis on systemic issues, and maintaining the operational health of data-center and corporate-IT hardware. Cloud and infrastructure-as-code work appears in many of these jobs, but the centre of gravity is closer to traditional systems administration and data-center operations than to cloud platform engineering. These engineers typically sit within IT, infrastructure operations, or data-center teams, partnering with networking, security, and application teams to keep infrastructure running as the business scales.
Measured across 29 of 29 open postings.
This role is advertised at one level, so a single figure for the role would describe none of them. Experience and pay are the midpoints for each level on its own.
| Level | Share | Median years | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 48%(14) | — | — |
A dash means too few postings stated it to report a midpoint at any level. Most companies do not publish a salary band, so pay is indicative rather than a market rate. 4 levels with fewer than 10 open postings are not shown.
“Build, operate, and improve AI and agentic workflows for repeatable administration, configuration checks, and troubleshooting”
“Identify repetitive work throughout the operation and automate it with the tools at hand (scripts, systems integrations / connectors, AI tools)”
“Hands-on experience with LLM operations: model gateways or routing, agent runtimes, evals, or cost/usage instrumentation”
“Are fluent in using and administering modern AI tooling”
Skills
What companies are looking for in this role.
Incident response and reliability
Monitoring and observability
Infrastructure automation and IaC
Technical issue diagnosis
Cloud infrastructure operations
Identity and access management
Cloud and infrastructure security
Hardware bring-up and debug
Network engineering and operations
Data centre hardware operations
Systems performance optimization
Security engineering
Supplier and vendor management
Developer platform engineering
Hardware and embedded systems
Equipment maintenance and calibration
AI and GPU infrastructure operations
Technical documentation
Technology
The tools and technologies that define this role.
Open Jobs
29 open Infrastructure Engineer jobs across 16 companies.
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