HPC Engineer
Institute of Foundation Models, Sunnyvale, CA
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What you will do
- Monitor health, performance, and availability of large-scale GPU clusters.
- Respond to incidents and perform first-level triage.
- Support researchers and troubleshoot job failures.
- Execute operational runbooks and recovery procedures.
- Validate cluster deployments, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
- Track infrastructure utilization and operational metrics.
- Develop automation and monitoring tools.
- Contribute to documentation and reporting.
What you need
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related disciplines.
Experience
- 2+ years in Linux systems administration, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, HPC, or infrastructure operations.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with scripting using Python or Bash.
Nice to have
- Slurm.
- GPU infrastructure.
- AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar tools.
- Containers and Kubernetes.
- AI/ML infrastructure exposure.
- Research computing environments.
Pay and benefits
Compensation
$150,000 – $300,000/year + discretionary performance bonus + benefits
The posted salary range represents the company’s good faith estimate of the base compensation for this position upon hire. The actual base compensation offered may vary within this range depending on individual qualifications, including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, education, certifications, and specific business needs. In addition to base salary, total compensation includes an annual discretionary performance bonus and comprehensive benefits.
Benefits Include
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Bonus
- 401K Plan
- Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life insurance and disability
About Institute of Foundation Models
The Institute for Foundation Models (IFM) operates some of the world's largest AI supercomputing environments.
Position Summary This role provides operational coverage during Abu Dhabi overnight hours and serves as a primary point of contact for infrastructure monitoring, incident triage, researcher support, and production operations.
Read the job posting on the Institute of Foundation Models site
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