Senior HPC & GPU Cluster Architect

sfcompute; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity grant

Visa Sponsorships

Retirement matching

Medical, dental & vision

Time off

Parental leave

Daily lunch

Unlimited office book budget

Job summary

San Francisco Compute seeks an experienced HPC infrastructure engineer to design and deploy high‑performance GPU clusters worldwide. You’ll participate in on‑call rotations, deploy new environments, and drive automation to scale operations.

You’ll mentor junior engineers and help shape a customer‑focused culture. Ideal candidates have 5+ years building and operating HPC or GPU compute clusters, deep hardware knowledge, and strong IaC skills.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on designing, architecting and scaling HPC or GPU compute clusters.
• Deep understanding of server hardware fundamentals: GPUs, NICs, PCIe, memory, thermals, power.
• Ability to debug performance and reliability across hardware, OS, drivers, networking – full-stack.
• Excels at automating fleet operations (provisioning, monitoring, remediation) through infrastructure-as-code.
• Produces solid operational documentation and runbooks; mentors junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy new GPU clusters globally; keep them running smoothly.
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to issues; improve automation.
• Mentor junior engineers and shape team culture as an early contributor.
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to design custom solutions matched to workloads.

Skills

HPC cluster design

GPU compute

Linux systems

Automation / IaC

Mentoring

Travel willingness

Tools

Slurm

Kubernetes

KVM

QEMU

libvirt

Job description

San Francisco Compute seeks an experienced HPC infrastructure engineer to design and deploy high‑performance GPU clusters worldwide. You’ll participate in on‑call rotations, deploy new environments, and drive automation to scale operations.

You’ll mentor junior engineers and help shape a customer‑focused culture. Ideal candidates have 5+ years building and operating HPC or GPU compute clusters, deep hardware knowledge, and strong IaC skills.