Senior AI Systems & GPU HPC Engineer

CommonAI C.I.C.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

Growth opportunities

Competitive salary + pension

Professional development

Networking opportunities

Office near Cambridge station

Job summary

CommonAI CIC, a non-profit membership organisation, is seeking a Senior AI Systems Administrator to provision and maintain multi-rack GPU server clusters for inference and training workloads in Cambridge. The role blends high-end hardware with software orchestration and collaborative engineering across teams.

You will work with cutting-edge AI tooling, optimise systems, and support users with scalable, robust infrastructure during UK business hours.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a System Administrator, HPC Engineer, MLOps Engineer or equivalent role.
• Modern GPU server deployment, tuning and management.
• Advanced networking technologies (Infiniband, RDMA, RoCE).
• Advanced Linux skills with servers running hypervisors/VMs and multiple distros (Ubuntu, RHEL).
• Expertise in source code management (Git) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, OpenTofu).

Skills

GPU deployment

Linux administration

Networking

Terraform

OpenTofu

Git

Hypervisors/VMs

Python scripting

Storage systems

Tools

Slurm

LSF

Ceph

Lustre

Weka

ROCE

Job description

CommonAI CIC, a non-profit membership organisation, is seeking a Senior AI Systems Administrator to provision and maintain multi-rack GPU server clusters for inference and training workloads in Cambridge. The role blends high-end hardware with software orchestration and collaborative engineering across teams.

You will work with cutting-edge AI tooling, optimise systems, and support users with scalable, robust infrastructure during UK business hours.