Senior AI Infra Engineer - Data Center & AI Ops

Tencent Americas

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 125,000 - 284,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

Tencent Americas is seeking a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end AI infrastructure deployments, from data center due diligence to ongoing production operations. You will bridge internal teams and external partners to ensure on-time, to-spec delivery at scale, while providing technical leadership and mentorship.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data center infrastructure, strong Linux expertise, and hands-on experience with cluster orchestration tools like Slurm and Kubernetes,

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years in data center infrastructure, deployment, or operations.
  • Solid understanding of high-performance compute hardware, networking, storage, and power/cooling.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct on-site data center assessments to evaluate AI infrastructure readiness.
  • Review and validate infrastructure designs, identify risks and trade-offs.
  • Coordinate with external partners to meet timelines and requirements.
  • Translate requirements into technical specifications for delivery.
  • Own day-2 operations: monitoring, incident response, capacity checks, hardware lifecycle management.

Skills

Data center infra
Cluster orchestration
Linux system administration
Python scripting
Stakeholder coordination

Education

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

Tools

Slurm
Kubernetes
Ansible
Terraform
Prometheus/Grafana/ELK

Job description

Tencent Americas is seeking a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer to own end-to-end AI infrastructure deployments, from data center due diligence to ongoing production operations. You will bridge internal teams and external partners to ensure on-time, to-spec delivery at scale, while providing technical leadership and mentorship.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data center infrastructure, strong Linux expertise, and hands-on experience with cluster orchestration tools like Slurm and Kubernetes,

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