The San Francisco Compute Company
HPC/ GPU Cluster Architect
San Francisco, CA
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 42 days ago
KubernetesLinux
About the role
- GPU clusters are some of the most performant computers on the planet.
- Even smaller clusters by today's standards would have ranked in the TOP500 https://top500.org five years ago.
- Our infrastructure team is responsible for architecting and deploying new clusters around the world and keeping them running smoothly.
Responsibilities
- We're building the company which will de-risk the largest infrastructure build-out in history.
Requirements
- Experience with schedulers and orchestration systems such as Slurm and Kubernetes
Nice to have
- You will have 5+ years of experience with hands-on designing, architecting and scaling at least one HPC or GPU compute cluster in production (ideally >1,000 GPUs, but not required)
- You deeply understand server hardware fundamentals, including GPUs, NICs, PCIe, memory, thermals, and power
- You're comfortable debugging performance and reliability issues across hardware, OS, drivers, and networking layers
- The idea of automating fleet operations (provisioning, monitoring, remediation) excites you - you embrace infrastructure-as-code
- You appreciate, value, and generate strong operational documentation and runbooks
- You have the ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers and contribute to team culture
- You're open to coming in to our San Francisco office 3-4 days per week
- You're open to domestic travel when required
Skills
- Exposure to virtualization technologies (KVM, QEMU, libvirt)
Compensation
- Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
Benefits
- Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
- We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
- We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
- We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
Company info
- We're a small but ambitious team so you'll be an early contributor helping to shape culture, mentor junior engineers, and learn from our customers.
- This isn't SaaS anymore - application layer companies sign multi-year contracts for computer and inference, but sell to customers on monthly subscriptions.
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