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Datacenter Field Engineer

San Jose💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own the physical health and foundational infrastructure of GPU clusters, ensuring stable, secure, and fully operational physical environments for demanding compute workloads.

Role type

Senior IC hardware operations & systems engineer (GPU clusters)

Builds

High-density GPU compute clusters for AI research and real-time applications

Domain

AI infrastructure / Datacenter hardware operations

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Linux systems administration, server hardware troubleshooting, networking security, Bash scripting, vendor coordination

Preferred skills

Configuration management (Ansible/SaltStack/Terraform), high-TDP accelerator cooling management

Technologies

Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL, NVIDIA H100, AMD MI300, LDAP/Active Directory, NFS/GPFS/Lustre, iptables/firewalld, SSH

Responsibilities

Respond to physical system outages and hardware failures, monitor hardware health (thermals, power, loads), coordinate RMA processes and repairs, rack and cable new GPU nodes, install and patch Linux OS, configure networking and security controls, manage identity and storage systems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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