Hybrid HPC Firmware & Fleet Automation Engineer

GTN Technical Staffing; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an HPC Hardware Engineer to own firmware lifecycle management and fleet automation for a large mix of CPU servers, GPU systems, and AI infrastructure in a hybrid Dallas-area environment. This hands-on role combines hardware engineering, Linux administration, and production automation.

You will qualify firmware updates, maintain baselines, develop repeatable deployment workflows, and ensure secure, scalable hardware onboarding.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing and automating heterogeneous HPC or AI hardware environments at scale.
• Hands-on experience managing firmware qualification, compatibility, baselines, packaging, and production deployment.
• Experience with Redfish, IPMI, and vendor management tools such as iLO, iDRAC, OneView, or NVIDIA utilities.
• Strong Python development skills and experience administering Linux systems.
• Production automation experience using Ansible, Jenkins, and Git.

Responsibilities

• Own firmware releases from initial vendor evaluation through testing, approval, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Monitor vendor releases and security advisories to determine applicability, urgency, and compatibility across hardware platforms.
• Validate firmware performance, interoperability, and stability in representative lab environments.
• Identify regressions before production deployment and work with vendors to investigate defects and validate fixes.
• Maintain approved firmware baselines, versioned release manifests, and auditable deployment records.
• Develop vendor-neutral automation using Redfish, IPMI, and platform-specific interfaces such as HPE iLO, Dell iDRAC, HPE OneView, and NVIDIA utilities.
• Build reusable workflows and declarative configurations for firmware provisioning, validation, and deployment.
• Develop production automation using Python, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, and workflows platforms such as Temporal.
• Implement rack-aware deployment sequencing, controlled concurrency, retries, failure handling, and recovery procedures.
• Integrate hardware inventory APIs and validation checks into automated workflows.
• Automate hardware onboarding, including inventory validation, management interface configuration, and firmware readiness.
• Support provisioning workflows using OpenStack/Ironic, Terraform, and cloud-init where applicable.
• Partner with data center teams to prepare new hardware for reliable production use.
• Identify recurring manual tasks and deliver automation improvements from initial design through production adoption.
• Incorporate secrets management, least-privilege access, hardware-health telemetry, and actionable alerting into automation services.
• Troubleshoot complex hardware and firmware issues alongside infrastructure teams and external vendors.
• Maintain clear operating procedures, firmware standards, and troubleshooting documentation for engineering and on-call teams.

Skills

Python development

Linux administration

Automation engineering

Vendor coordination

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Redfish

IPMI

iLO

iDRAC

OneView

NVIDIA utilities

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

Temporal

Terraform

cloud-init

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an HPC Hardware Engineer to own firmware lifecycle management and fleet automation for a large mix of CPU servers, GPU systems, and AI infrastructure in a hybrid Dallas-area environment. This hands-on role combines hardware engineering, Linux administration, and production automation.

You will qualify firmware updates, maintain baselines, develop repeatable deployment workflows, and ensure secure, scalable hardware onboarding.