The San Francisco Compute Company

The San Francisco Compute Company

Principal/Staff HPC Network Engineer

San Francisco, CA · Principal

H1B sponsorship availableDetected 148 days ago
KubernetesLinuxNetwork Engineering

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.

Nice to have

  • You will have 10+ years of experience with hands-on management or architecture with network for at least one GPU cluster in the past (ideally a cluster with >1k GPU's but not required)
  • You deeply understand the fundamentals of Ethernet (RoCEv2) and/or InfiniBand networks in CLOS/fat-tree topologies
  • You have built HPC network architectures (eBGP, fat-tree, VXLAN, MCLAG, etc.)
  • The idea of implementing zero-touch provisioning for a large multi-layer network excites you (you embrace automation)
  • You appreciate, value and generate good documentation
  • You have the ability and willingness to mentor junior engineers
  • You're open to coming in to our San Francisco office 3-4 days per week
  • You understand data center concepts including power, cooling and how to engage with colo providers

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.

This listing is sourced directly from The San Francisco Compute Company's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.