Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Backend/Data Performance)
Earth Species Project(6 days ago)
About this role
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Backend/Data Performance) at Earth Species Project will build and optimize data infrastructure and backend systems to support AI research decoding animal communication. The role focuses on scalable data pipelines, storage layers, and backend performance to enable reliable, production-quality experiments. The engineer collaborates with researchers, engineers, and external partners to simplify and accelerate complex AI workflows.
Required Skills
- Python
- Data Pipelines
- Distributed Systems
- GPU Orchestration
- Containerization
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- BigQuery
- DuckDB
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About Earth Species Project
earthspecies.orgEarth Species Project is a nonprofit research organization that develops machine learning models and tools to decode animal communication and reveal insights about non‑human cognition, behavior, and conservation. They collect and curate large bioacoustic datasets and build models and demos—such as NatureLM‑Audio (live on Hugging Face)—to analyze vocalizations across species. An interdisciplinary team of computational scientists, biologists, and conservationists drives open‑science releases of models, code, and data. Researchers and partners work with ESP for its domain‑specific ML expertise, datasets, and mission‑driven focus on accelerating discovery and conservation.