About the job
About Mithril
Mithril builds AI infrastructure to make GPU computing accessible for enterprises, AI startups, and research organizations. Customers include LG AI Research, Saronic, and the Broad Institute. Founded by a former Google DeepMind research scientist and a Stanford CS PhD, Mithril has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding from Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others. Over the past year, platform revenue has grown more than sixfold. Fast Company named Mithril the 8th Most Innovative Company in Artificial Intelligence for 2026.
The team is moving from bare-metal operations to a cloud-native, multi-provider platform, introducing an auction and flexibility model. This is a chance to help shape the platform from the earliest stages.
Role Overview
This Software Engineer - Technical Staff Member position works across three core areas:
- Consumption: Developer-facing product, billing, and API
- Platform: Orchestration and marketplace solutions
- Supply: Cloud provider integrations and capacity management
Engineers here take on substantial ownership, building features end-to-end that support critical customer workloads and drive revenue. The work spans backend systems, marketplace logic, and customer interfaces. Expect to see the impact of architectural decisions on Mithril’s growth and scalability.
What Makes This Role Unique
Unlike many early-stage infrastructure roles, this job combines deep systems work with product-facing challenges. Engineers contribute to the orchestration engine that manages GPU capacity across providers and the interfaces customers use to reserve, bid, and utilize resources.
The systems developed here handle financial transactions, real workloads, and market mechanisms such as spot auctions, reservation pricing, and capacity allocation. For those interested in the mechanics of GPU infrastructure markets and building the technology that powers them, this role offers direct involvement.
Location
This role is based in Palo Alto or the San Francisco Bay Area.

