Senior GPU HPC Engineer: Lead Frontier AI Infra

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 223,200 - 334,800; Full time

Job summary

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc. is seeking a Senior HPCEngineer for MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models. This role involves providing technical leadership in designing and operating large-scale GPU infrastructure for AI research.

Responsibilities include optimizing GPU clusters, troubleshooting systems, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with researchers. Ideal candidates should have relevant experience in HPC and a degree in a related field.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in HPC, Linux infrastructure, or large-scale production environments.
• Experience with Slurm and Linux administration.
• Experience troubleshooting compute, storage, and networking systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead operation and optimization of large-scale GPU clusters.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and performance improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers.
• Participate in major incident management and escalations.

Skills

HPC expertise

Linux administration

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Slurm

NVIDIA technologies

InfiniBand networking

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc. is seeking a Senior HPCEngineer for MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models. This role involves providing technical leadership in designing and operating large-scale GPU infrastructure for AI research.

Responsibilities include optimizing GPU clusters, troubleshooting systems, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with researchers. Ideal candidates should have relevant experience in HPC and a degree in a related field.