Open role · Cluj-Napoca · Full time
Make private AI a platform people can rely on.
The role
Pexon Romania is hiring a DevOps and cloud native engineer in Cluj-Napoca to run the platforms its AI work is delivered on: Kubernetes clusters, GPU nodes serving open-weight models, and the gateway that meters and logs every call. Jobs are based at the Cluj office and the work happens in customer tenants.
The work
03 / Gateway
Teams need access to models without losing control of usage and cost.
02 / Serving
GPU memory, batching and concurrency change capacity planning.
01 / Foundation
The platform must fit existing identity, networking and change processes.
Across every layer: CI/CD, observability, runbooks and a handover the customer’s team can use.
What you bring
You have debugged real scheduling or runtime problems and can explain how you approached them.
AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, including identity, networking and quotas.
Docker and a delivery pipeline you have built with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
Python or Go for tooling, operators and integration work.
Comfort working through platform decisions with customer engineers.
Room to grow
Prior GPU experience and German are welcome, but neither is a requirement. You operate models here; the role does not require a machine-learning research background.
A person behind the process
HR Business Partner · Recruiting
Laura runs recruiting for the Cluj hub. Your application reaches her first, she answers your questions about the process and the range, and she brings in the engineers you would actually work with. Later in the process you also meet Noel Dinger, who runs the company.
Meet the people behind PexonThe conversation
Share something you have built or operated. Your message reaches Laura Picovici, who runs recruiting for the hub.
A 30–60 minute first conversation about your work and what you want next. Ask for the salary range by email beforehand.
A practical session together, inside working hours. No weekend take-home assignment.
Talk with Noel Dinger about the company and what you would own.
A yes or a no, with a reason. After a technical session, feedback addresses the work discussed.
The role is based at the Cluj-Napoca office. The team is built around people who can work there together. Discuss the current office schedule in the first conversation; this is not a remote-first role.
Yes. Ask in your application email and the range will be shared in the reply, before a technical session. The email preparation form includes an optional request for the range so you can raise it from the start.
No, and few people have. What is needed is solid Kubernetes and enough curiosity about what makes inference different from a web workload: memory that is reserved rather than requested, batching that changes throughput by an order of magnitude, and a cold start measured in minutes. The rest is learnable here and is being learned here.
The customer's, in almost every case. That is what forward deployed means: their cloud subscription, their cluster, their security review and their change window. It is the part of the job people underestimate, because a platform you do not own is a platform where the fastest fix is often not available to you.
What the on-call arrangement looks like depends on the engagement, and the honest answer is that it is negotiated per customer rather than fixed by a company policy this page could quote. Ask about it in the first conversation; the answer you get will be about the specific engagements currently running.
You will run several platforms rather than one, in environments you did not design, for teams that are not yours. The variety is the appeal and it is also the cost: you rarely get the luxury of a two-year plan to fix a foundation, and you have to be able to leave a system in a state someone else can operate.
Your next move
Tell us about a system, a difficult problem, or something you made better. A short introduction is enough to start the conversation.
Prepare an email. Review it. Send when you are ready.
Build the systems around the model.
Full time · Office-basedView role