HPC & AI Infrastructure Engineer

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I); Piemonte; Ibrido; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Tempo pieno

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Office in Turin

Competitive salary

Access to HPC resources

Descrizione del lavoro

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I) is seeking a hands-on HPC / AI Specialist to optimize compute infrastructure powering AI Foundry and Deployment activities. You will operate at the intersection of infrastructure operations and applied AI execution, ensuring engineers can train, fine-tune, infer, and run data-intensive pipelines on shared resources.

This cross-unit role, shared 50% with Deployment, focuses on workload efficiency, system tuning, and direct user support,

Competenze

• Strong Linux system administration in production environments.
• Solid background in CPU and GPU architectures and performance characteristics.
• Experience operating HPC clusters or large-scale compute environments.
• Hands-on experience with distributed and software-defined storage systems (e.g., VAST or equivalent).
• Experience with workload managers and job schedulers (e.g., Slurm or equivalent).
• Experience troubleshooting performance bottlenecks in compute or storage environments.
• Understanding of AI training and fine-tuning workloads, including GPU memory management, batch sizing, distributed execution constraints, and data pipeline performance in HPC or large-scale compute environments.
• Scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or equivalent).
• Experience supporting shared infrastructure with uptime and operational responsibility.

Mansioni

• Operate and maintain Linux-based HPC clusters supporting AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workloads.
• Manage GPU and CPU compute environments, including workload scheduling, resource isolation, and performance tuning.
• Support distributed and software-defined storage systems used for large-scale datasets.
• Act as the primary technical interface between infrastructure operations and internal or external users running AI workflows.
• Provide hands-on technical support for AI workload optimization, including distributed training and parameter-efficient fine-tuning of foundation models on HPC infrastructure.
• Support foundation model fine-tuning workflows (including parameter-efficient approaches), including configuration of data pipelines, checkpoints, runtime settings, and GPU memory optimization in HPC environments.
• Optimize resource utilization and workload performance across multi-tenant environments.
• Support containerized workloads running on shared compute infrastructure.
• Monitor system health, performance, and capacity; troubleshoot user-facing production issues.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement and evolution of system architecture in collaboration with infrastructure teams.
• Support internal users and clients with debugging, environment setup, and best practices for scalable AI execution.

Conoscenze

Linux admin

CPU/GPU arch

HPC clusters

Distributed storage

Slurm

Performance tuning

Scripting Bash/Python

Uptime ownership

Strumenti

VAST storage

NVIDIA GPUs

Private cloud

Containers

Descrizione del lavoro

The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I) is seeking a hands-on HPC / AI Specialist to optimize compute infrastructure powering AI Foundry and Deployment activities. You will operate at the intersection of infrastructure operations and applied AI execution, ensuring engineers can train, fine-tune, infer, and run data-intensive pipelines on shared resources.

This cross-unit role, shared 50% with Deployment, focuses on workload efficiency, system tuning, and direct user support,