Groq
Sr. Storage Design Engineer
United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role requires deep expertise in distributed storage, high-performance storage systems, data center infrastructure, Linux, and automation.
- You will also help establish the engineering standards, reference architectures, validation methodologies, and technical direction that allow Groq's storage infrastructure to scale.
- & opportunities in this role: Architect highly available, high-performance storage platforms supporting large-scale AI and compute infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Mission: Groq is building high-performance AI infrastructure designed to make inference fast, predictable, and scalable.
- As a Senior Storage Design Engineer, you will own storage architecture and design across high-performance data center and AI infrastructure environments.
- You will work closely with compute, network, platform, data center, security, and infrastructure operations teams to take storage designs from requirements and benchmarking through production deployment.
- Work closely with software teams building inference and training stacks to align storage topology with stack architecture.
- Develop storage architectures, high-level designs (HLDs), low-level designs (LLDs), implementation standards, and reference architectures.
- Design storage solutions optimized for high-throughput, low-latency, and highly parallel AI workloads.
- Design scalable storage systems using technologies such as NVMe, NVMe-oF, SSD, high-capacity HDD, object storage, and distributed file systems.
- Develop storage strategies for AI models, datasets, inference workloads, application data, logs, backups, and other infrastructure requirements.
- Perform capacity planning and develop forecasting models for storage growth, utilization, performance, and lifecycle management.
- Design storage architectures spanning multiple data centers or infrastructure environments where appropriate.
Benefits
- Establish storage observability requirements, including telemetry, performance metrics, health monitoring, capacity visibility, and alerting.
Company info
- Our infrastructure teams design and operate the systems that provide the compute, storage, networking, and platform capabilities behind Groq's rapidly growing AI infrastructure.
- We are looking for a Senior Storage Design Engineer to architect, design, validate, and evolve the storage infrastructure supporting Groq's large-scale AI and compute environments.
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