Senior AI Infra Systems Architect & Lead Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc; North Carolina; In loco; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an AI Infrastructure Technical System Engineer to serve as the principal systems architect for enterprise AI platforms.

You will define architectural direction, drive complex infrastructure initiatives, and mentor engineers across a global team supporting foundational models, distributed AI training, and ML platforms. You will lead design and optimization of bare-metal GPU clusters, multi-tenant compute planes, and AI workload orchestration while ensuring

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or related discipline with 5 plus of progressive experience in enterprise systems engineering, HPC, AI infrastructure, or SRE.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, with extensive experience building declarative automation (Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps).
• Advanced expertise designing and administering production Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, and HPC workload managers (Slurm, Kueue, Volcano, Ray).
• Strong hands-on understanding of AI backend network fabrics, RDMA technologies (RoCEv2), and high-speed multi-hundred-gigabit network topologies.

Mansioni

• Architecture, Strategy & Capacity Engineering of large-scale bare-metal GPU clusters (NVIDIA/AMD).
• Architect multi-tenant compute and control planes across bare-metal Kubernetes, OpenShift, and HPC cluster managers.
• Collaborate with network engineers to design and optimize high-throughput, low-latency fabrics.
• Champion Site Reliability Engineering to eliminate operational toil and uphold SLOs.
• Oversee IaC and GitOps deployment pipelines using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Go, and CI/CD tooling.
• Manage firmware baselines, BIOS/BMC configuration, kernel driver updates, and platform upgrades.

Conoscenze

Python

Go

Bash

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Strumenti

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Descrizione del lavoro

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking an AI Infrastructure Technical System Engineer to serve as the principal systems architect for enterprise AI platforms.

You will define architectural direction, drive complex infrastructure initiatives, and mentor engineers across a global team supporting foundational models, distributed AI training, and ML platforms. You will lead design and optimization of bare-metal GPU clusters, multi-tenant compute planes, and AI workload orchestration while ensuring