Principal Enterprise AI Architect / Financial Services

Supermicro; Wayne (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Supermicro is seeking a forward-deployed architecture leader in San Jose, CA to design scalable AI/HPC estates and lead discovery, workshops, and proofs of concept with customers. You will package production-ready architectures for repeatability across multiple accounts and collaborate with sales, factory engineering, and NVIDIA field architects.

Exceptional travel to customer sites for multi-day workshops and POCs is required; you will work with NVIDIA-based systems and adjacent AMD/Intel

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in CS/CE/IT with 12+ years in solution/data center architecture or consulting, with production deployments you can point to.
• Experience designing hybrid AI or HPC estates: private/on-prem plus public cloud and/or GPU cloud, comfortable working on customer floors.
• Experience taking large GPU/HPC systems from first workshop to production, NVIDIA data center GPU platforms, NVIDIA certification desirable.
• Working knowledge of AMD and Intel server platforms, storage and networking; ability to travel to customer sites for multi-day workshops and POCs.

Responsibilities

• Forward-deployed customer architecture: embed with high-profile accounts, analyze workloads, and package architecture for executives and teams.
• Workshop, POC, and production handoff: run workshops, bring-up on Supermicro hardware, validate workloads, and hand off a repeatable design.
• Enablement and field leadership: document lessons, train sales/field engineers, represent Supermicro at events.

Skills

Solution architecture

Data center architecture

AI/HPC design

Customer workshops

NVIDIA GPUs

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/IT

Tools

NVIDIA data center GPUs

AMD/Intel servers

Job description

About Supermicro

Supermicro is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Job Summary

This is a forward-deployed architecture role. You will work with the customer for discovery, workshops, and proofs of concept. You design the AI factory, stand the first system up with the customer's team, and stay involved through production handoff. You will package the design so Supermicro can repeat and scale it across thousandsofcustomers. You will work with Supermicro sales, factory engineering, and NVIDIA field architects.

Supermicro partners with NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, and with leading storage and networking companies. Most work on these accounts is NVIDIA-based - HGX, NVL-class systems, and NVIDIA software. AMD, Intel, storage, and networking included when the customer's standard requires it.

This position is located in San Jose, CA. Exceptional candidates elsewhere in the United States will be considered if candidate can travel extensively for customer deployments.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Forward-deployed customer architecture
   Embed with high-profile Financial Services accounts for discovery and design. Sit with scientists, risk, infrastructure, and security. Analyze the workload on their data and constraints. Produce the architecture and present it to executives and technical teams. Package departmental GPU and HPC nodes, HGX-class clusters, or rack-scale NVL systems, including networking, power, and liquid cooling.

2. Workshop, POC, and production handoff
   Run workshops from workload and data boundary to architecture, TCO, and operating model. Scope and run the proof of concept on Supermicro hardware, bring-up, workload, fail-closed tests. Write the production design Supermicro can build and ship. Bring in AI safety best practices when agents or sensitive data are in scope. Stay involved through first production handoff, then return the repeatable design to scale across similar customers.

3. Enablement and field leadership
   Document what worked at the account so the next deal in the vertical does not start from zero. Train sales and field engineers on how these accounts buy and deploy. Represent Supermicro with customers, partners, and at industry events in Life Sciences, Healthcare, or Financial Services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.12+ years as a solution architect, data center architect, or consultant, with production deployments you can point to.

• Experience designing hybrid AI or HPC estates: private / on-prem plus public cloud and/or GPU cloud / neocloud. Comfortable working on the customer floor: workshops, lab bring-up, and POC execution, not only remote design reviews.

• Experience taking large GPU/HPC systems from first workshop to production, including networking and data center power and cooling. Working knowledge of NVIDIA data center GPU platforms and software. NVIDIA certification is desirable.

• Working knowledge of AMD and Intel server platforms and of major storage and networking products. Experience with regulated data, on-premises inference, or scientific computing is strongly preferred. Ability to travel to customer sites for multi-day workshops and POCs.

Salary Range

$210,000 - $255,000

The salary offered will depend on several factors, including your location, level, education, training, specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees already in this role. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as participation in bonus and equity award programs.

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.