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Lumafield

Infrastructure Engineer, On-Prem Systems

San Francisco, CA$125k–$150kfull timemidAdded today

About this role

Design and deliver production-ready on-premises systems for advanced manufacturing inspection hardware. You'll architect complete appliances from bare metal to Kubernetes, own engineering documentation and deployment workflows, and partner across manufacturing and field operations to scale from prototypes to production.

What you'll do

  • Design high-performance on-prem compute, storage, networking, and power infrastructure with proper rack layout
  • Prototype, benchmark, and profile system performance including throughput, bandwidth, and resource contention
  • Create comprehensive hardware/software BOMs, wiring diagrams, network plans, and provisioning documentation for manufacturing handoff
  • Harden appliances for security with encryption, network segmentation, firewall policies, and air-gap-resilient update mechanisms
  • Manage Kubernetes deployments on fixed capacity with proper node pools, storage, and database service configurations
  • Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and field services to transition prototypes to repeatable products and incorporate field feedback into roadmap

What they're looking for

  • Physical server infrastructure design and deployment (racking, cabling, power sizing)
  • Linux server administration and network troubleshooting
  • Docker containerization and system productionization
  • Bare-metal provisioning (PXE, cloud-init, Redfish/IPMI)
  • Ansible configuration management and infrastructure automation
  • Networking fundamentals (VLANs, subnetting, DHCP, DNS, firewalls, link aggregation)
  • Kubernetes on fixed capacity environments
  • Scripting and infrastructure-as-code practices

Benefits

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation
  • Health and wellness stipend
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible PTO
  • Commuter benefits and company-wide events
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Lumafield

Lumafield builds industrial CT scanning systems that provide advanced insights to optimize manufacturing processes and product development. The company is hiring engineers across hardware, software, systems, and customer-facing roles to develop and deploy their innovative scanning technology.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a time you designed and deployed a complete physical server infrastructure from scratch—what were the key decisions around compute, storage, and networking?
  • Describe your experience with bare-metal provisioning. How have you handled golden image creation, firmware configuration, and scaling deployments?