Senior AI Infra Engineer - Hyperscale GPU Platform (Remote)

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early-stage equity

Founding engineer role

Equity package

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the software architecture that connects thousands of GPUs, high‑performance networking, storage, schedulers and cloud orchestration platforms in a stealth‑mode hyperscale AI infrastructure project.

This hands‑on leadership role designs and builds infrastructure software for a platform enabling tens of thousands of GPUs to operate as a unified environment, with flexible remote or hybrid work and a substantial

Qualifications

• 8+ years in distributed systems, infrastructure platforms, HPC, or large-scale cloud services.
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, C++, Python or similar systems languages.
• Experience building infrastructure software, not business apps.
• Deep Linux knowledge, OS internals, networking, distributed computing.
• Experience with HPC schedulers such as Slurm or large‑scale Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of APIs, SOA, and cloud-native platforms.
• Ability to lead technically while remaining hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core platform software powering large-scale HPC and AI infra.
• Build distributed systems for GPU scheduling, resource allocation, and workload orchestration.
• Create integrations across Slurm, Kubernetes, cloud orchestration, and custom schedulers.
• Develop services for provisioning, telemetry, observability, health, and remediation.
• Optimize performance across GPU fabrics, storage, and distributed compute environments.
• Collaborate with networking, platform, storage, and hardware teams to maximize efficiency.
• Design APIs, automation, and tooling to improve operability and customer experience.
• Contribute to long-term platform architecture for hyperscale AI and HPC.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across thousands of nodes.
• Mentor engineers and set software engineering standards.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Python

Distributed Systems

Linux

Kubernetes

Slurm

Networking

Leadership

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

Linux

Cloud Orchestration

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the software architecture that connects thousands of GPUs, high‑performance networking, storage, schedulers and cloud orchestration platforms in a stealth‑mode hyperscale AI infrastructure project.

This hands‑on leadership role designs and builds infrastructure software for a platform enabling tens of thousands of GPUs to operate as a unified environment, with flexible remote or hybrid work and a substantial