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Staff HPC Systems Architect

San Jose Office (First St)💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect and define scalable compute platforms optimized for AI/ML, simulation, and high-throughput workloads.

Role type

Staff HPC Systems Architect

Builds

Scalable AI/ML compute platforms, rack-level and cluster designs

Domain

High-performance computing, AI infrastructure, hardware architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale GPU HPC/cloud platform architecture, CPU/GPU/accelerator topology knowledge, high-bandwidth low-latency fabric design (NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE), system performance tuning, thermal and power optimization, compute lifecycle management, hardware/software boundary navigation, architectural tradeoff analysis

Preferred skills

AI/ML workload performance characteristics, HPC orchestration tools (Slurm, Kubernetes), GPU virtualization, hardware validation, vendor collaboration, compute telemetry, large-scale A/B infrastructure testing

Technologies

NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE, Slurm, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Architect scalable compute platforms for AI/ML and simulation; Develop compute system standards and design patterns; Evaluate emerging CPU/GPU/accelerator technologies; Map workload requirements to compute platform capabilities; Define compute platform roadmaps and architectural reference designs; Act as technical lead for new platform introductions and validation; Mentor systems engineers on performance tuning and architectural decisions

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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