Senior HPC Hardware Architect – AI Compute & Scale

NorthMark Strategies LLC; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Company-paid medical benefits

Dental and Vision for employees and 가족

16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Disability insurance (Short/Long Term)

401(k) company match up to 6%

Optional employee-paid benefits (PPO,H

Job summary

NorthMark Strategies LLC in Dallas, TX seeks a Senior HPC Hardware Engineer to join the Compute Engineering team. You will own the hardware lifecycle for a large-scale HPC/AI compute fleet, spanning GPU and CPU nodes, and drive automation and reliability across the environment.

The role demands hands-on leadership, experience with firmware, BIOS, Redfish, and OpenStack/Ironic, and strong collaboration with software, networking, and vendor teams. 5+ years in HPC infra preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years managing large-scale HPC/AI compute infra in production.
• Deep server hardware architecture knowledge across CPUs/GPUs.
• Hands-on with bare-metal provisioning, firmware, BIOS lifecycle and automation tools.
• Proficiency with Redfish API and BMC/IPMI tooling for remote management.
• Experience with Linux-based environments and scripting for automation.
• OpenStack Ironic or similar provisioning platform preferred.
• Strong cross-functional communication and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and manage a high-performance compute fleet (GPU/CPU) across Dallas.
• Own firmware/BIOS lifecycle from baselining to rollout and maintenance.
• Lead hardware troubleshooting across CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, NVSwitches, NICs, memory, PSUs, and BMCs.
• Automate health checks, onboarding, and hardware issue remediation to accelerate deployment.
• Validate and operationalize AI platforms (NVL72/Grace) from day one.
• Collaborate with vendors on firmware/hardware issues with clear repro cases.
• Perform hardware performance analysis, tuning, and capacity planning.
• Define security hardening for hardware infrastructure and IaC workflows.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive team-wide best practices.

Skills

server hardware architecture

bare-metal provisioning

firmware and BIOS lifecycle

hardware automation tools

Redfish API / BMC tooling

GPU/CPU diagnostics

Linux scripting (Python, Bash, Power?)

OpenStack Ironic or similar

IaC / automation

mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

iDRAC / iLO

GPU/CPU diagnostics tooling

Job description

NorthMark Strategies LLC in Dallas, TX seeks a Senior HPC Hardware Engineer to join the Compute Engineering team. You will own the hardware lifecycle for a large-scale HPC/AI compute fleet, spanning GPU and CPU nodes, and drive automation and reliability across the environment.

The role demands hands-on leadership, experience with firmware, BIOS, Redfish, and OpenStack/Ironic, and strong collaboration with software, networking, and vendor teams. 5+ years in HPC infra preferred.