GPU Cluster Engineer, Hardware Operations

Sciforium; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Lunch & snacks

Flexible time off

Salary and equity

Job summary

Sciforium is seeking a Hardware Operations Engineer to own the physical health and foundation of our GPU clusters. You will manage data center coordination, rack and bring-up of new nodes, and ensure secure Linux environments for research and product workloads.

You will monitor hardware health, handle on-call responses, and liaise with vendors for maintenance and replacements while administering OS, network security, and directory services across the cluster.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Linux system administration with boot and disk management.
• Experience with high-density server hardware troubleshooting.
• Networking security and directory services experience (LDAP/AD).
• Bash scripting for automation.
• Experience with Ansible, SaltStack, or Terraform is a plus.

Responsibilities

• System Health & Hardware Reliability: On-Call Response for outages and hardware failures; monitor GPU/thermal/power metrics; coordinate RMAs and maintenance; lead hardware deployment for new GPU nodes.
• Linux & Network Administration: Install, patch, and maintain Linux OS across bare-metal servers; manage security and access (VPNs, firewall rules, SSH); manage LDAP/AD and storage mounts (NFS/GPFS/Lustre).

Skills

Linux administration

Hardware troubleshooting

Networking security

Directory services

Bash scripting

Tools

Ansible

SaltStack

Terraform

Job description

Sciforium is an AI infrastructure company developing next-generation multimodal AI models and a proprietary, high-efficiency serving platform. Backed by multi-million-dollar funding and direct sponsorship from AMD with hands-on support from AMD engineers the team is scaling rapidly to build the full stack powering frontier AI models and real-time applications.

Role Overview

We are looking for a dedicated Hardware Operations Engineer to own the physical health and foundational infrastructure of our GPU clusters. You will be the primary custodian of our compute hardware, responsible for everything from data center vendor coordination up to the base Linux OS layer. You will ensure our research and product teams have a stable, secure, and fully operational physical environment to run their demanding compute workloads on.

Key Responsibilities

• System Health & Hardware Reliability

  • On-Call Response: Serve as the primary point of contact for physical system outages, hardware failures, and network interruptions to minimize downtime.

  • Cluster Monitoring: Proactively monitor hardware health, including GPU thermals, power draw, and physical system loads, catching anomalies before they impact active workloads.

  • Vendor Liaison: Work closely with data center facility staff and third-party hardware vendors to coordinate RMA processes, physical repairs, part replacements, and routine maintenance.

  • Hardware Deployment: Rack, cable, and lead the physical bring-up of new GPU nodes, ensuring power and network connectivity are fully integrated into the existing cluster.

• Linux & Network Administration

  • OS Management: Install, patch, and maintain Linux operating systems (Ubuntu/CentOS/RHEL) across the cluster bare-metal servers.

  • Security & Access: Configure and maintain edge and internal networking, including firewalls, VPNs, and strict SSH access controls to secure our infrastructure.

  • Identity & Storage Management: Administer LDAP/Active Directory for centralized user authentication and ensure network storage systems (NFS/GPFS/Lustre) are reliably mounted and properly permissioned.

Qualifications

• Must-Haves:

  • 3+ years of experience in Linux Systems Administration (deep knowledge of boot processes, systemd, disk management, etc.).
  • Strong background in server hardware troubleshooting, specifically within high-density environments (power, cooling, PCIe topologies).
  • Experience managing networking security (VPNs, iptables/firewalld, VLANs) and directory services (LDAP/FreeIPA/Active Directory).
  • Proficiency in Bash scripting for essential system automation.

• Nice-to-Haves:

  • Experience using configuration management tools like Ansible, SaltStack, or Terraform for OS provisioning.
  • Familiarity with data center operations, cooling requirements for high-TDP accelerators (like NVIDIA B200 or AMD MI355x).

Benefits include

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k plan
• Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
• Flexible time off
• Competitive salary and equity

Equal opportunity

Sciforium is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.