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San Francisco Compute | Multiple Roles | San Francisco | ONSITE

We're building a new, regulated, commodity market for large scale GPU clusters. More like the Kalshi, less like craigslist. To accomplish this, we make a VM orchestrator called "Fog" that understands InfiniBand, GPUs, and heterogeneous hardware setups.

We make money by taking a flat fee of a few cents per GPU hour upon delivery. Up until recently, we've been "running a market" via a spreadsheet, by selling bursts on very large clusters (think 6 to 8 figures deal sizes).

SFC started because Alex (https://alexgajewski.org/) & I went to go train an audio model and none of the vendors at the time would sell us a month-long contract. So we bought a year-long one, and tried to sublease it at cost (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933603), so that way we could buy just one month.

The goal of the company is the same: we want to make it possible to buy a big, giant training cluster for a short time period. We think a liquid market will let you spend $40m for a month instead of $300m for a year. If we can't make that happen, then only the big labs will get to make AI.

Most of our code is in rust, some typescript. We're about ~20 people. We raised $12m a bit ago. There are 7 ex-founders on the team.

We'd love to work with you! I'll bet you're cool.

Open roles are here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sfcompute

You can also email me at [e-mail].