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Senior HPC AI Cluster Engineer

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$176k–$276k2026-08-20 → 2026-11-12

Core

Design, implement, and maintain large-scale HPC/AI clusters, managing workloads, orchestration, and automation for supercomputing and AI infrastructure.

Role type

Senior HPC AI Cluster Engineer

Builds

Large-scale compute platforms for AI and scientific research

Domain

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Linux internals and networking, HPC/AI solution technologies, job scheduling and orchestration (Slurm, K8s), storage solutions (Lustre, GPFS, Weka.io), Python and bash scripting, automation and configuration management (Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet/chef), virtual systems (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Citrix), deep networking protocols (InfiniBand, Ethernet, TCP, DHCP, DNS)

Preferred skills

CPU/GPU architecture knowledge, Kubernetes and container microservices, GPU-focused hardware/software (DGX, Cuda), RDMA fabrics (InfiniBand, RoCE)

Responsibilities

Design and maintain large-scale HPC/AI clusters with monitoring and alerting; Manage Linux job/workload schedules and orchestration tools; Develop CI/CD pipelines; Build tooling for automated deployment and self-service resource consumption; Deploy monitoring for servers, network, and storage; Troubleshoot from bare metal to application level; Document standard methodologies; Support R&D activities and POCs/POVs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC