Senior System Management Engineer - AI Infra Lead

Graphcore; Milpitas, Austin (CA, TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Flexible working

Wellness programs

Job summary

Graphcore in Milpitas, CA, is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to join the System Management team and lead development of interfaces used to manage system state.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, guide architecture, and drive reliable deployment and operation at scale across hardware and software.

This hands-on role requires strong judgment, cross-team collaboration and a track record of delivering complex engineering initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
• Substantial Linux-based infrastructure or distributed systems experience.
• Experience leading complex engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Ability to influence architecture across teams without formal authority.
• Strong experience designing RESTful APIs and coding in Go, with Bash/Python for automation.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise and production workloads experience.
• Hands-on with IaC, version control and CI/CD tools like Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with hardware-management interfaces such as Redfish or IPMI.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting and operational debugging skills.
• Proven mentoring and coaching across engineers and teams.
• Excellent communication to align stakeholders on technical outcomes.
• Experience using AI coding assistants in engineering workflows.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators and CRs.
• Familiarity with HPC environments and SLURM/LSF.
• Experience with virtualization tech and distributed storage.

Responsibilities

• Translate System Management direction into technical plans and deliverables.
• Provide architecture and design leadership across teams, documenting trade-offs.
• Serve as technical authority for System Management initiatives and coordinate plans, risks and decisions.
• Mentor engineers in system management, deployment automation and production operations.
• Own key technical outcomes across the full software lifecycle including testing and deployment.
• Identify reliability and operability improvements across the platform.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, Platform Software and Datacenter Ops to diagnose system-level issues.
• Improve CI/CD, IaC, automated testing and release safety practices.
• Act as escalation point while creating reusable tooling and automation.

Skills

RESTful APIs

Go

Bash

Python

Linux systems

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Container runtimes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Git

OpenTelemetry

Redfish/IPMI

VSphere/Open vSwitch/KVM/QEMU

Job description

Graphcore in Milpitas, CA, is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to join the System Management team and lead development of interfaces used to manage system state.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, guide architecture, and drive reliable deployment and operation at scale across hardware and software.

This hands-on role requires strong judgment, cross-team collaboration and a track record of delivering complex engineering initiatives.