HPC Engineer

Ifm Us; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits

Bonus

401K Plan

Generous paid time off

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance and disability

Job summary

Ifm Us is seeking an individual for a role that provides operational coverage during overnight hours, primarily for monitoring large-scale GPU clusters and supporting researchers. Responsibilities include incident response, troubleshooting job failures, and validating deployments.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of experience in relevant fields including Linux systems administration and scripting. Benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, and more.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in Linux systems administration, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, HPC, or infrastructure operations.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with scripting using Python or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health, performance, and availability of large-scale GPU clusters.
• Respond to incidents and perform first-level triage.
• Support researchers and troubleshoot job failures.
• Execute operational runbooks and recovery procedures.
• Validate cluster deployments, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
• Track infrastructure utilization and operational metrics.
• Develop automation and monitoring tools.
• Contribute to documentation and reporting.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Scripting (Python or Bash)

Slurm

GPU infrastructure

AWS

Azure

GCP

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Containers

Kubernetes

AI/ML infrastructure

Research computing environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

About MBZUAI

The Institute for Foundation Models (IFM) operates some of the world's largest AI supercomputing environments.

Position Summary

This role provides operational coverage during Abu Dhabi overnight hours and serves as a primary point of contact for infrastructure monitoring, incident triage, researcher support, and production operations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health, performance, and availability of large-scale GPU clusters.
• Respond to incidents and perform first-level triage.
• Support researchers and troubleshoot job failures.
• Execute operational runbooks and recovery procedures.
• Validate cluster deployments, upgrades, and maintenance activities.
• Track infrastructure utilization and operational metrics.
• Develop automation and monitoring tools.
• Contribute to documentation and reporting.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related disciplines.

• 2+ years in Linux systems administration, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, HPC, or infrastructure operations.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with scripting using Python or Bash.
• Slurm.
• GPU infrastructure.
• AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Containers and Kubernetes.
• AI/ML infrastructure exposure.
• Research computing environments.

Benefits Include

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Bonus
401K Plan
• Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance and disability