Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer - GPU Validation

Emerson; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Life insurance and AD&D

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville seeks a seasoned HPC/ distributed systems engineer to design automated tools and validation frameworks ensuring GPU racks are production-ready. Responsibilities include building NCCL benchmarks, GPU infrastructure tests, NVLink connectivity and Slurm workflows.

You will implement load and performance tests, develop automation and IaC, apply security controls, and contribute to incident response and runbooks. Willingness to relocate to Nashville office required.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems with emphasis on scalability and operability.
• Experience with HPC tooling, GPU validation and performance benchmarking is a plus.
• Ability to work on-site in Nashville, TN or relocate.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with scalability, resiliency, and operability.
• Delivers features and load/performance tests; builds NCCL benchmarks and NVLink tests; develops Slurm-based validation workflows.
• Implement automation/IaC for troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident response; author runbooks and ensure security controls.

Job description

Join the HPC team to develop automated tools and validation frameworks that ensure GPU racks are ready for production. The role includes building NCCL performance benchmarks, GPU infrastructure and NVLink connectivity tests, Slurm-based validation workflows, and automated FDT and cable diagnostics.

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability.

Designs, implements, and optimizes components in distributed systems with an emphasis on scalability, resiliency, and operability. Delivers features and load/performance tests; leverages data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing; and reviews peers’ implementations for scalability compliance. Builds fault-tolerant paths (redundancy, replication, automatic failover), applies recovery‑oriented principles, and implements retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts. Proactively detects and mitigates issues via tests, alarms, dashboards, and telemetry; authors runbooks and participates in incident response and RCAs. Implements standard replication and synchronization, develops automation/IaC for troubleshooting and maintenance, and applies advanced security controls (encryption, access, remediation) while ensuring change, compliance, and documentation standards are met.

Must live or be willing to relocate so you are able to regularly go into the Nashville, TN office.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• 2. Short term disability and long term disability
• 3. Life insurance and AD&D
• 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 9. 11 paid holidays
• 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• 11. Paid parental leave
• 12. Adoption assistance
• 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 14. Financial planning and group legal
• 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.