Hybrid AI HPC Systems Engineering Manager

Iren; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

IREN is seeking an engineering leader for the Deployment team, guiding ~12 HPC systems engineers who design and build compute, storage and network infrastructure for large-scale GPU clusters. You will own end-to-end delivery, review designs, and balance reliability, cost, and time to capacity while staying hands-on enough to mentor and review incidents.

Reporting to the Director of Cloud and Network Engineering, you will shape the roadmap for schedulers (Slurm/Kubernetes), file systems,

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing engineers, including teams of 8+
• 5+ years in HPC, large-scale Linux infrastructure
• Hands-on depth in schedulers, file systems, fabrics, GPU node operations
• Experience planning hardware capacity with data center, facilities and procurement
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, executives, vendors, customers
• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and explain reasoning

Responsibilities

• Lead the Team: Manage, coach, and grow 12 engineers with 1:1s and career plans
• Set technical direction: shape roadmap for scheduling, file systems, fabrics, image pipelines
• Take ownership of project delivery: end-to-end delivery, realistic commitments, escalate blockers
• Represent team in architecture forums and translate needs into priorities
• Collaborate with data center ops, networking, platform software, security, and customers

Skills

People management

HPC expertise

Scheduling systems

Vendor management

Tools

Slurm

Lustre

GPFS

NVIDIA drivers

NCCL

DCGM

Kubernetes

Job description

IREN is seeking an engineering leader for the Deployment team, guiding ~12 HPC systems engineers who design and build compute, storage and network infrastructure for large-scale GPU clusters. You will own end-to-end delivery, review designs, and balance reliability, cost, and time to capacity while staying hands-on enough to mentor and review incidents.

Reporting to the Director of Cloud and Network Engineering, you will shape the roadmap for schedulers (Slurm/Kubernetes), file systems,