Senior AI GPU Compute Architect

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG is seeking a senior technical architect to own the AI data center compute architecture, translating AI training and inference needs into deployable GPU and accelerated compute solutions for customers.

You will lead discovery, perform technical validation, and collaborate with network, storage, OEMs, and delivery teams to ensure scalable, production-ready designs. The role is customer-facing, requires 7+ years in data center compute, and is positioned with opportunities

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data center compute, HPC, AI infrastructure, or related roles.
• Deep expertise in GPU servers, large-scale compute platforms, and accelerators.
• Strong customer-facing architecture, workshop, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and architecture for GPU/Compute opportunities in AI Data Center programs.
• Design scalable GPU clusters and accelerated compute platforms across GPUs, CPUs, memory, PCIe, NICs/DPUs, NVMe, and systems management.
• Translate workload, performance, capacity, resiliency, and growth requirements into sizing, reference architectures, BOMs, and standards.
• Evaluate and position current and next-generation GPU/server platforms based on customer requirements.
• Define compute architecture dependencies across networking, storage, power, cooling, rack design, and deployment.
• Support cluster bring-up, firmware/software validation, benchmarking, performance optimization, troubleshooting, production readiness.
• Partner with Network and Storage Solution Architects to ensure balanced end-to-end AI cluster performance.
• Work with Rack Integration, OEMs, Services Architecture, and delivery teams to ensure scalable designs.
• Support RFQs/RFPs, proposals, workshops, proofs of concept, and architecture reviews.
• Develop repeatable compute reference architectures and standards for large-scale AI Data Center programs.

Skills

GPU/accelerated compute

server architecture

HPC

large-scale compute infrastructure

Linux

Kubernetes

Slurm

customer-facing architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

NVLink/NVSwitch

BIOS/BMC

AI compute platforms

Job description

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG is seeking a senior technical architect to own the AI data center compute architecture, translating AI training and inference needs into deployable GPU and accelerated compute solutions for customers.

You will lead discovery, perform technical validation, and collaborate with network, storage, OEMs, and delivery teams to ensure scalable, production-ready designs. The role is customer-facing, requires 7+ years in data center compute, and is positioned with opportunities