HPC & AI Infrastructure Engineer

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

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Office in Torino technology hub

Competitive compensation

Access to advanced computing resources

Performance-based incentives

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 work on state-of-the-art AI computing environments with NVIDIA B200 accelerators and VAST storage, ensuring efficient AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workflows.

This role interfaces between machine infrastructure and AI teams, focusing on performance, stability, and user support, with a strong

Competenze

• 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.
• Practical understanding of AI training and fine-tuning workloads in HPC 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 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 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

CPU architectures

GPU architectures

HPC clusters

Distributed storage

Job schedulers

Performance tuning

GPU memory management

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Multitenant environments

Strumenti

VAST

Slurm

Linux

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 work on state-of-the-art AI computing environments with NVIDIA B200 accelerators and VAST storage, ensuring efficient AI training, fine-tuning, and inference workflows.

This role interfaces between machine infrastructure and AI teams, focusing on performance, stability, and user support, with a strong