Senior HPC Hardware Architect - AI & GPU Compute

NorthMark Compute & Cloud; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthMark Compute & Cloud is seeking a Senior HPC Hardware Engineer to join the Compute Engineering team in Dallas, TX. This hands-on role owns the full hardware lifecycle for a large HPC/AI compute fleet, spanning GPU and CPU nodes built on cutting-edge NVIDIA platforms.

You will drive hardware standards, automation, and production readiness, collaborating closely with software, networking, and vendor teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on experience in electrical or computer engineering.
• 5+ years of experience managing large-scale HPC/AI compute infrastructure in production.
• Deep knowledge of server hardware architecture, including processors, memory, storage, networking, power, and thermal management.
• Hands-on in bare-metal provisioning, firmware/BIOS lifecycle management, and hardware automation tools.
• Proficiency with Redfish API and BMC/IPMI tooling (iDRAC, iLO) for remote hardware management.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex hardware issues across GPU/CPU nodes, including NVIDIA-SMI.
• Experience with hardware monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity planning at scale.
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell) for automation.
• Experience with OpenStack Ironic or similar cloud/bare-metal provisioning.
• Strong cross-functional communication and leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and manage a high-performance compute fleet (GPU/CPU nodes).
• Own firmware and BIOS lifecycle across the HPC/AI fleet, including baselines and rollout.
• Lead hardware troubleshooting across components (CPUs, GPUs, DPUs, NVSwitches, NICs, memory).
• Automate health checks, onboarding, and remediation to accelerate deployment.
• Validate next‑gen AI platforms (NVL72/Grace) for production readiness.
• Collaborate with vendors to diagnose firmware/hardware issues; provide reproduction cases and logs.
• Perform hardware performance analysis, tuning, and capacity planning for scale-out.
• Define security hardening practices for hardware infrastructure.
• Leverage IaC and scripting for repeatable infrastructure management.
• Mentor engineers and drive best-practice improvements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Automation mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Redfish API

IPMI/iDRAC/iLO

OpenStack Ironic

Lua/Python scripting

NVIDIA SMI

Job description

NorthMark Compute & Cloud is seeking a Senior HPC Hardware Engineer to join the Compute Engineering team in Dallas, TX. This hands-on role owns the full hardware lifecycle for a large HPC/AI compute fleet, spanning GPU and CPU nodes built on cutting-edge NVIDIA platforms.

You will drive hardware standards, automation, and production readiness, collaborating closely with software, networking, and vendor teams.