Responsible for the Kubernetes-based infrastructure, your systems run on: capacity planning, resource budgeting, scaling, namespace/cluster lifecycle, production incident response.
Provide guidance, coaching, and day-to-day prioritization for the team. Participate in architectural planning and represent the team’s long-term viewpoint. Serve as technical escalation point for architecture calls that cross team or service boundaries.
Potential to act as AI Engineering lead.
Stay ahead of the model-serving and inference-hardware landscape.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent; EE/physics acceptable with a strong software track record.
5+ years relevant experience, prior technical-lead or architect experience preferred.
Senior-level ability to design, build, and ship production software independently.
Reach for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity, or similar) by default, not because a policy directs you to. Focus on what the agents can do, have opinions about using them well, and make the call on what the team standardizes.
Demonstrated, senior-level ability to drive cross-team technical decisions to closure and gain buy-in without formal authority. In-depth experience architecting distributed systems in Kubernetes/cloud environments, including production ownership.
Frontend/UI skills sufficient to ship a real agent-facing application, not just a demo.
Strong individual and small team leadership skills in prioritizing and shipping.
Excellent written and verbal communication.
Comfortable presenting technical direction to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders. Working fluency with LLM/agent tooling: agent frameworks, MCP or equivalent toolintegration patterns, RAG components preferred.
C++ and Python knowledge and prior production experience in either is a plus.
Hands-on experience selecting, installing, and optimizing GPU/server hardware and inference stacks (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT-LLM), ideally including air-gapped/on-prem environments.
Semiconductor industry familiarity, particularly test/ATE domain.
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Compensation: The estimated base pay range for this position is $175,000 - $225,000 per year, depending on qualifications, experience, education, and other job-related factors. This range represents Cohu’s good faith estimate of what it reasonably expects to pay for this role upon hire. This role may also be eligible for other compensation programs as determined by company policy.
Featured benefits • Medical, dental & vision insurance • 401(k) with company matching contributions • Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Tuition assistance • Disability & life insurance • Profit Sharing
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