AI Infrastructure Engineer

Intercom is the AI Customer Service company on a mission to help businesses provide incredible customer experiences.

Our AI agent Fin the most advanced customer service AI agent on the market lets businesses deliver always-on impeccable customer service and ultimately transform their customer experiences for the better. Fin can also be combined with our Helpdesk to become a complete solution called the Intercom Customer Service Suite which provides AI enhanced support for the more complex or high touch queries that require a human agent.

Founded in 2011 and trusted by nearly 30000 global businesses Intercom is setting the new standard for customer service. Driven by our core values we push boundaries build with speed and intensity and consistently deliver incredible value to our customers.

Whats the opportunity

Were looking for Senior AI Infrastructure Engineers to build the systems that train and serve Intercoms next generation of AI products.

Intercom is an AI company that builds from the GPU all the way up to a user agent that resolves millions of customer service queries a month.

Youll join a small highly technical team working at the cutting edge of modern AI infrastructure. The AI Infra team built the training pipelines and runs the inference for custom models like Fin Apex which outperforms frontier models in customer service tasks and is the foundation of the AI Groups full stack approach to AI.

Were particularly interested in engineers who have:

• A track record of working on model training or model inference at scale or on lowlevel GPU coding (e.g. CUDA Triton). Experience with one is great multiple is even better.

What will I be doing

As a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer focused on model training and inference you will:

• Implement and scale training pipelines for large transformer and LLM models from data ingestion and preprocessing through distributed training and evaluation.
• Build and optimize inference services that deliver lowlatency highreliability experiences for our customers including autoscaling routing and fallbacks.
• Work on GPUlevel performance: tuning kernels improving utilization and identifying bottlenecks across our training and inference stack.
• Collaborate closely with ML scientists to implement cutting edge training and inference methods and bring them to production.
• Play an active role in hiring mentoring and developing other engineers on the team.
• Raise the bar for technical standards reliability and operational excellence across Intercoms AI platform.

Profile were looking for:

These are indicative not hard requirements

Were looking to hire Senior AI Infrastructure Engineers. Youre likely a great fit if:

• You have 5 years of experience in software engineering with a strong track record of shipping highquality products or platforms.
• You hold a degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field (or you have equivalent experience with very strong fundamentals).
• You have handson experience with one or more of the following:
• Model training (especially transformers and LLMs).
• Model inference at scale (again especially transformers and LLMs).
• Lowlevel GPU work such as writing CUDA or Triton kernels.
• Comfortable working in production environments at meaningful scale (traffic data or organizational).
• You communicate clearly can explain complex technical topics to different audiences and enjoy close collaboration with both engineers and nonengineers.
• You take pride in strong technical fundamentals love learning and are willing to invest in your own development.
• Have deep knowledge of at least one programming language (for example Python Ruby Java Go etc.). Specific language experience is less important than your ability to write clean reliable code and learn new stacks quickly.

Bonus skills & attributes

None of these are required but theyre nice to have:

• Experience at AI native companies that train and/or run inference for their own models (e.g. modern AI labs or AInative product companies).
• Experience running training or inference workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS or other major cloud providers.
• Production experience with Python in ML or infrastructure contexts.
• Demonstrated passion for technology through personal projects open source meetups or publishing content about your work and learnings

Benefits

We are a well treated bunch with awesome benefits! If theres something important to you thats not on this list talk to us!

• Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
• We serve lunch every weekday plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen
• Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!
• Unlimited access to Claude Code and best-in-class AI tools; experimentation & building is encouraged & celebrated.
• Pension scheme & match up to 4%
• Peace of mind with life assurance as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• Flexible paid time off policy
• Paid maternity leave as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones
• If youre cycling weve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too
• MacBooks are our standard but we also offer Windows for certain roles when needed.

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Policies

Intercom has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Intercom. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.

Intercom values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Intercom will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race color religion creed national origin ancestry sex gender age physical or mental disability veteran or military status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity gender expression marital status or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal state or local law.