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Intent Lab

Autonomous AI software engineering platform

Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructurePlatform Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery, observability tools, and cloud-native design patterns.
  • Ability to operate independently and deliver under ambiguity.
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain distributed systems that power the AI platform and developer tools.
  • Architect and scale high-throughput, low-latency backend services.
  • Optimize performance, reliability, and cost across the infrastructure stack.
  • Operate and improve cloud-native environments using AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
  • Build automation for deployment, provisioning, and environment lifecycle management.
  • Implement secure, scalable, and repeatable continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
  • Support infrastructure for model inference, training, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Work closely with AI teams to operationalize models at scale.
  • Build systems for prompt orchestration, agent execution, and developer tool integration.
  • Establish observability standards covering metrics, logging, and tracing.
  • Drive incident response, debugging, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Contribute to security, compliance, and data privacy best practices.
  • Partner across AI, product, and engineering teams to unblock delivery.
  • Contribute to technical planning, architecture reviews, and infrastructure strategy.

About the company

Intent Lab builds Fleet, an autonomous AI system that acts as an engineering team to turn high-level intents into production-grade software, handling architecture, coding, deployment, testing, and ongoing optimization. Fleet takes natural-language requests and creates software tailored to a user’s constraints and workflow, instead of just generating code. It differentiates itself by delivering end-to-end lifecycle management with built-in quality and performance checks, resulting in production-ready systems. The company aims to shift how software is created by generating and refining software directly from user intent, producing fully verified solutions customized to each task.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2026

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What believers are saying

  • Intent Lab's August 2026 launch earned immediate attention from developers and AI infrastructure buyers.
  • The Fleet database demo passed all six million SQLite compatibility tests from scratch.
  • Job postings in May 2026 signal hiring, suggesting productization after the July launch.

What critics are saying

  • No public funding, revenue, or named customers are disclosed by September 7, 2026.
  • Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex already own coding workflows, compressing Intent Lab's wedge.
  • NVIDIA and other platform vendors can ship similar autonomous agents, squeezing Intent Lab's margins fast.

What makes Intent Lab unique

  • Yangqing Jia launched Intent Lab in July 2026, bringing Caffe, ONNX, and PyTorch credibility.
  • Fleet targets end-to-end software delivery, not just code completion, verification, or refactoring.
  • Early demos showed 6.3x GLM-5.2 inference gains and six million SQLite tests passed.

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