Associate AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer

University of Bristol; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Bristol's AI Supercomputing Centre seeks a capable engineer to build and operate software-defined supercomputing platforms for researchers. You will design and maintain large-scale GPU/CPU/GPU workloads, collaborate with researchers, and help scale services using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python/Rust.

The role focuses on robust service delivery, open access infrastructure, and distributed systems at national-scale research within cybersecurity-compliant practices.

Qualifications

• Experience with large distributed systems and infrastructure as code.
• Strong collaboration with researchers and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Use tools such as Python, Rust, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Git and Bash.
• Design and operate large, highly available supercomputing services managed as software-defined infrastructures.
• Experience designing and operating GPU and CPU/GPU workloads at scale.
• Co-design solutions with researchers to enable new algorithms and software.

Skills

SysOps

NetOps

DevOps

SecOps

MLOps

Research Software Engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent practical experience in ML/AI research

Tools

Python

Rust

Terraform/OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Git

Bash

Job description

The University of Bristol's AI Supercomputing Centre seeks a capable engineer to build and operate software-defined supercomputing platforms for researchers. You will design and maintain large-scale GPU/CPU/GPU workloads, collaborate with researchers, and help scale services using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python/Rust.

The role focuses on robust service delivery, open access infrastructure, and distributed systems at national-scale research within cybersecurity-compliant practices.