Full-Time

Network Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps

Wynd Labs

Wynd Labs

1-10 employees

Provides decentralized, ethical AI training data

No salary listed

Ashburn, VA, USA

Remote

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (2)
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Required Skills
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
Grafana
Computer Networking
Docker
AWS
Elasticsearch
Prometheus
Terraform
Ansible
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Proven experience designing networks and maintaining physical infrastructure.
  • Possesses a deep understanding of routers/switches and establishing connectivity between servers.
  • Strong proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, security, and automation.
  • Experience with high-performance storage solutions, namely MinIO.
  • Proficiency in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  • Solid understanding of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on performance optimization and automation.
Responsibilities
  • Infrastructure Design and Implementation: Oversee design, configuration, and deployment of networks, servers, network switches, systems, firewalls, and applications.
  • Oversee the configuration of servers with virtualization and the troubleshooting of application issues.
  • Ensure infrastructure solutions meet business needs, including scalability and security.
  • System Maintenance and Support: Ensure regular maintenance of servers, networks, and other infrastructure components to ensure uptime and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure components.
  • Network Management: Ensure correct configuration of network components, including switches, routers, firewalls, and VPNs.
  • Monitor system performance and implement solutions to enhance reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate DevOps best practices into the development lifecycle.
  • Ensure that all systems are secure and compliant with industry standards.
Desired Qualifications
  • None

Wynd Labs provides AI training data through a decentralized data provisioning network called Grass. It gathers multimodal data (financial insights, price scraping, audio transcripts) to offer high-quality datasets for AI developers and researchers training large language models and other AI applications. The data is accessed via a subscription to an unlimited dataset repository, with additional work on native AI tools to help scrape and structure data from the public web. The company differentiates itself by using decentralization to improve transparency, speed, and cost-efficiency in data acquisition, aiming to compete with traditional data providers. Its goal is to make accessible ethical, quality data for AI development while enabling researchers to build better models at lower costs.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$4.5M

Headquarters

Toronto, Canada

Founded

N/A

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $3.5M from Polychain and Tribe for decentralized AI expansion.
  • Processes video data 95% cheaper via Grass's 3M+ nodes.
  • Partners with Eclipse to democratize bandwidth access.

What critics are saying

  • Cloudflare and Akamai lawsuits block Grass node IPs in 3-6 months.
  • EU AI Act slashes nodes from 8M to under 1M by August 2026.
  • Scale AI outcompetes with faster labeled datasets in 12-18 months.

What makes Wynd Labs unique

  • Wynd Labs contributes to Grass, decentralizing data provisioning with 8M residential devices.
  • Blockchain verifies unbiased AI training data origins via Merkle roots.
  • Open-sources UpvoteWeb, 600M Reddit posts from 2024 on Hugging Face.

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Company News

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